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Launching a single application without displaying a webtop

With Secure Global Desktop you can launch a single application without displaying webtop. How you do this depends on whether you are using the browser-based webtop or the classic webtop.

Note If an application is not on the user's webtop, they cannot launch the application.

Browser-based webtop

For the browser-based webtop you can launch a single application either by using the Secure Global Desktop Client command line or by using Secure Global Desktop web services.

Using the Secure Global Desktop Client command line

You can use the Secure Global Desktop Client command line to launch a single application. You can use the command line to develop your own shortcuts or shell scripts. This works best if you use automatic logins.

Using Secure Global Desktop web services

You can use Secure Global Desktop web services to develop your own "application launcher" to launch a single application from a URL. You can use this method to launch an application from a bookmark or a favorite. Secure Global Desktop provides an example application that shows what is possible with web services.

The URL for using the Secure Global Desktop example application is:

http://server.example.com/sgd/launcher.jsp?o=application_name&u=username&p=password&e=true|false

The URL has the following parameters:

Parameter	Description
`o=application_name`	The name of the application object. This does not have to be a TFN name.
`u=username`	The username to use to log in to Secure Global Desktop.
`p=password`	The password to use to log in to Secure Global Desktop.
`e=true\|false`	`true` means display an edit page where users can override some of the application attributes. `false` means do not display edit page.

Note All of the parameters are optional.

For example, the following URL launches the Write-o-win application using the configuration for the application object defined in Object Manager.

http://boston.indigo-insurance.com/sgd/launcher.jsp?o=Write-o-win&u=indigo&p=purple&e=false

Classic webtop

If you are using the Java™ technology clients, you can use Javascript to launch a single application.

If you are using the Native Client, you can use the Native Client command line to launch a single application. You can use the command line to develop your own shortcuts or shell scripts.

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