RE: How to open StartItem directly without the helper window

Kai Kircher — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:31:22 GMT

Is there a way to avoid the helper window in 12.0 yet? We're on 12 SP9, and I keep running into that old problem of "if the linked-to item has previously been opened, the link works just fine, otherwise it fails"

RE: How to open StartItem directly without the helper window

Christopher Gillis — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 14:40:52 GMT

Hello, There is currently no way to avoid opening the helper window. However, this may be fixed when Aras Innovator 12.0 is released as Innovator will run directly within a browser tab instead of a separate window. That being said, it is possible to automatically close this window after the item is opened. You can do this by modifying the file \Innovator\Client\Modules\aras.innovator.core.MainWindow\deepLinking.js in your code tree. Around line 24 you can add an additional snippet of code to close the window if an Innovator instance is already open.

            if (!deepWindowIframe.src) {
deepWindowIframe.src = 'deepLinking.aspx';
window.close(); // Close this window if Innovator is already open
}

Please note that this proposed change was made in 11.0 SP15. You may require a similar workaround in a different file if you are using an older version of Aras Innovator. Chris

Christopher Gillis Aras Labs Software Engineer