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Open a File Explorer Window on Button-Click

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I want to have a button inside my Mendix frontend that opens the users local file explorer with a certain path. I found some answers to that on the forum but they seem to be outdated. They are over 10 years old and I can not find the referenced functionality "External Link". With this functionality it is mentioned that putting in a link with the structure "file:///DriveLetter://Path" would work for my use case. Help would be appreciated! Just for Clarification: I do not want the user to select a file (would be easy via File Manager Widget).

asked 2024-03-04

Robin Sternberg

1 answers

Mahesh Lingolu · Answer 1 · 2024-03-04

Use JavaScript to Open File Explorer: Write JavaScript code within your custom widget to open the file explorer with the desired path. This can be achieved using the window.open() method with a file:/// URL.

Here's a basic example of how you might implement this in your custom widget's JavaScript:

window.open('file:///C:/Path/To/Your/Folder', '_blank');