Launch application on a local machine when link clicked

kristenankeny
Tera Guru

We would like to have forms for the software people can download through our SCCM Client on their computers. On this form, we'd like to provide a link that will launch the application. How can we go about doing this? I created a UI Macro and a variety of links such as http://file:///C:\....., file:\\\C/..., C:/..., but none seem to function. This is the current one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">

  <a href="file:///Windows\folder1\folder2\application.exe" target = "_blank">Software Center</a>

</j:jelly>

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Shane J
Tera Guru

Isn't this really something you can't do, due to browser security meant to combat malware?


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Yea, that's what I've found and we've decided to use a knowledge doc to show them how to download the files.