The GSU_CQXE_OpenURL global hook opens a web browser window to a specified URL. The function first opens a confirmation dialog, whose message you can customize. If the user clicks OK in the dialog, the browser opens; if the user clicks Cancel, the dialog closes and focus returns to the record form.
This functionality is available on the ClearQuest® Client and ClearQuest Web client. If a user attempts to open a URL from an older client, or from the ClearQuest client for Windows, the API returns an informational message. To display this message to the user, call the die function.
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The following examples show a record script that you can use with the global hooks to open a URL. In these examples, clicking an OpenIBM button opens a dialog and asks whether the user wants to open a browser to the specified URL. If the user clicks OK, a browser window opens to www.ibm.com; if the user clicks Cancel, the dialog closes.
sub Defect_Open_Url {
my($result);
my($param) = @_;
# record type name is Defect
$url="http://www.ibm.com";
$msg="Do you want to open a browser to this URL?";
my $session = $entity->GetSession();
GSU_CQXE_OpenURL($session,$url,$msg);
return $result;
}
Function Defect_Open_Url(param)
' param As Variant
' record type name is Defect
REM add your hook code here
Dim url
Dim message
set session = GetSession
url = "http://www.ibm.com"
message = "Do you want to open a browser to this URL?"
Defect_Open_Url=GSU_CQXE_OpenURL(session,url,message)
End Function