[SYSTEM21] Linking from Explorer

["Brunk, Kevin" <KBrunk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We've been asked to provide functionality from within Explorer which would 
allow a user to press a function key on, say, the Order Entry Header (AOP) 
display, and have a web-page appear that contains customer notes (located on a 
web-server) associated with the customer from which the function key was 
placed.  In other words, the function key would, essentially start up a web 
application and pass it the customer number and AS/400 user id.  The web 
application would then launch and handle the user interaction with the 
web-based customer notes.
 
I  can accomplish this from "green screen" AOP using the Client Access PCO 
function.  We simply issue STRPCO when the user signs on and then from AOP, 
when the user presses the function key, we generate a STRPPCMD command string 
that invokes Internet Explorer passing a URL with the customer number embedded 
in it.  I've noted in the archives that PCO doesn't work from Explorer.
 
Has anyone else had a similar need and found an alternative approach?  Not to 
limit solutions, but maybe something involving macros or screen scrapers or...?

==Kevin Brunk
The Butler Company

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