Editing Your Event Menu Browser Settings - Novell SENTINEL RAPID DEPLOYMENT 6.1 - 12-2009 User Manual

10.5.8 Editing Your Event Menu Browser Settings

This option allows you to send your Event Menu output to an external browser. The external
browser can be any application. It is not restricted to Internet browsers. By changing the file
extension, you can launch whatever application is associated with that extension. For example, txt is
often associated with Notepad. You can also select to launch a specific program (for example, you
can set txt files to be opened by Wordpad or another editor).
1 Open the Event Menu Configuration window.
2 Click Browser.
3 Select one of the following two options:
Use default browser: Uses the default browser set for that particular machine.
Use the following commands to launch a browser: Allows you to specify a specific
application to launch. When you are using a browser other than the default browser, your
command line must be followed by a %URL%. For example:
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE %URL%
Default extension: This file extension is assumed if the file type in a configured action is
blank.
The following is an example where the output of the Menu Option launches into Internet
Explorer*.
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