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How to right-click on a cell that contains a URL and opens the page in a web browser

You can also put explorer as the first argument instead of the full path of the browser. This will automatically choose your default browser. You need to create a command that is set to run on the client side where Active Console is installed.

Here, the full path of the browser is defined together with the xpath @value to get the current value of the cell you right-clicked.

Command:

Command to open web browser

Command XML:

<command name="Open link in Chrome">
 <targets>
 <target>//*</target>
 </targets>
 <userCommand>
 <type>script</type>
 <runLocation>client</runLocation>
 <args>
 <arg>
 <static>&quot;C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe&quot;</static>
 </arg>
 <arg>
 <static>&quot;</static>
 </arg>
 <arg>
 <concatenate>true</concatenate>
 <xpath>@value</xpath>
 </arg>
 <arg>
 <concatenate>true</concatenate>
 <static>&quot;</static>
 </arg>
 </args>
 </userCommand>
</command>
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