The Auto Run feature allows actions to be executed automatically when a user logs into a LinkServer User Interface, such as AggreGate Client. Auto Run actions are very useful for creating "dashboards", which are sets of widgets which are automatically displayed in pre-set positions as soon as a user launches AggreGate Client. Another use would be to automatically display the status of a particular mission critical Device.
Actions are launched in the same order as they appear under the Auto Run context. Children of this context may be reordered. AggreGate Client users may use reordering feature of the System Tree for that, while other LinkServer User Interfaces provide similar facilities.
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Every user has his own set of Auto Run Actions. |
Administering Auto Run
Two contexts are used to administer the automatically started actions: One is the general Auto Run context, which serves as a container. The other is the Auto Run Action context, which holds the information for one auto-started action. |
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Every auto-run action has several properties:
Field Description |
Field Name |
Description. A textual description of the automatically started action. This is also a description of the Auto Run Action context. |
description |
Context Mask. This defines the scope of the Auto Run action. The action will be launched from all contexts matching this mask. |
mask |
Action. The action which will be launched when Auto Run is activated. |
action |
Enabled. The Auto Run action can also be enabled or disabled (without deleting the action itself). |
enabled |
These properties may be accessed through the childInfo variable.