Hi everyone, We are currently migrating from VC4 to MappView. In our VC4 projects, we used a lot of Processes to open windows applications, but I cannot find a direct equivalent in mappView. What is the recommended alternative for this logic? Thanks in advance!

Hi, there’s no similar functionality in mappView available. Some brainstorming about how to solve it was done in this thread: [image] Triggering an application on client OS via mapp View HMI & Visualization Hello community, We have an X20 CPU + 5PPC1200 hard…

Unfortunately, there is no equivalent in mapView to process what you know from VC4. It would not work from a security standpoint anyway (page shown in web browsers cannot access the OS). I would personally solve it using a local script and find a way to trigger it.

Hi @Bram_Couckuyt , I marked Alex overview as a possible solution, but feel free to continue in discussion if needed. Would be great how have you solved it finally, can be inspiration for others. Thanks.

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alexander.hefner (Alexander Hefner) December 30, 2025, 7:16am 2

Hi,

there’s no similar functionality in mappView available.
Some brainstorming about how to solve it was done in this thread:

Best regards!

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