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Dashboard

The External Application Dashboard is shown in the Dashboard panel when you select an External Application connection in the Navigation panel. It can be configured to show windows of currently running processes. Use the Connect (Ad Hoc) button in the toolbar to create a new ad hoc external application connection based on the selection. You can move the resulting connection to your document by using drag & drop.

 

Features

Enumerates and shows a list of all windows available from the currently running processes.

• Open in Explorer opens the folder containing the selected executable.
• End Process kills the selected process.
• Connect (Ad Hoc) creates an Ad Hoc External Application connection and tries to embed the selected window.
• Search for a process in the grid.

• Refresh updates the list of available windows.

 

Dashboard Settings

To configure the application default settings for the included dashboard, open the Plugins Management and click on Dashboard for the External Application plugin.

To configure individual dashboard settings for a connection, use the Dashboard property page.

 

Plugin Settings

The External Application plugin does not offer any plugin settings at this time.

 

Connection Properties

The External Application Properties dialog is shown:

• for a new External Application connection by clicking the External Application menu item in the Add drop down menu in the Edit group on the Home ribbon tab.
• for an existing External Application connection by selecting an External Application connection and clicking on the Properties command in the Edit group on the Home ribbon tab.
• as a bulk-edit dialog when multiple External Application connections were selected in the Folder / Document Dashboard and the Properties command in the Edit group on the Home ribbon tab is clicked. See also: Bulk Operations