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Can Webster+ menu launch iNOMADS programs
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pwhirley:
I've got several programs that a customer has been running via iNOMADS for a while from a fairly ugly start page using some convoluted security. While duplicating the system to a new customer, I started looking at Webster+ to be the front end and controller, giving better flexibility and built-in security. The project is on a short timeline so I do not have the option of rewriting all the programs to work with REST. I saw that Webster+ can use the TX=### so I thought, perhaps, that I can mix in iNOMADS with the new Webster programs while we, potentially, re-write what is necessary. Is this possible?
Thanks - Phil
Philip Whirley
Ride the Lowcountry, LLC
Mike King:
Yes -- you can launch iNomads and in fact ANY URL can be included in a menu or side bar link.
One of our goals was that clients will start to use Webster+ to integrate with their iNomads application and longer term start moving portions of their application to Webster itself thus creating true web-based applications.
pwhirley:
Thanks Mike. That is what I had hoped to be able to do. REST will work much better in the long run, but it's not trivial for some of our stuff. I will carry on with my new plans.
pwhirley:
Hey Mike, when I create a Webster+ menu option and try to use URL to run an iNOMADS transaction, I am unable to do it. If I have Webster+ installed to use port 8088, I am completely unable to run iNOMADS transaction on that instance of EZWeb. I would expect to be able to do: http://localhost:8088?txid=FEShipping, but that does not work. It simply takes me to the Webster+ default page. I can run that transaction if I use an EZWeb instance not tied to Webster+. What is the secret for using an iNOMADS transaction from Webster+? Do I have to have two separate EZWeb instances running?
pwhirley:
I believe that this question is answered. Tino Vanholst has confirmed that I cannot use the Webster+ EZWeb instance to run iNOMADS transactions, but I can run a second EZWeb instance to process the iNOMADS. If I start them both in background mode from the task scheduler using the same user account, they will apparently not take up two users. This will suffice for my purposes.
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