What handles dynamics:// URLs? - startup

I'm trying to create my own custom drilldown functionality, where a URL dynamics://0?myfunction_123456 will launch my own code.
In C\SysStartupCmd\construct, this base code:
case 'viewalert':
sysStartupCmd = new SysStartUpCmdViewAlert(s,parm);
break;
case 'drilldown':
sysStartupCmd = new SysStartUpCmdDrillDown(s,parm);
break;
case 'viewalertrule':
sysStartupCmd = new SysStartUpCmdViewAlertRule(s,parm);
break;
I've tested and these all get fired with these URLs:
dynamics://0/?DrillDown_382576
dynamics://0/?ViewAlert_382576
dynamics://0/?ViewAlertRule_382576
However, if I add my own case, leaving all other code the same, I can't get the URL to fire:
case 'myFunction':
sysStartupCmd = new SysStartUpCmdDrillDown(s,parm);
break;
I've dug all over the system and can't figure out what causes the dynamics:// URL to only fire for those three cases. Is there a registry entry or something? I've found C\EventDrillDownPoller which appears to create a PipeServer to maybe handle what's incoming?

Of course, I figure out my own answer every time I type up a stackoverflow question, but I think the information is really useful.
This stack question led me to find out that C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\50\Client\Bin\AxHLink.exe %1 handles Dynamics:// URLs.
Which led me to Microsoft's community forums where somebody else was facing a similar problem as me.
So the solution would be to either:
Create custom a URI handler with C# or some other language to communicate to AX (Similar to this)
Hi-jack one of the 3 handled existing cases with some custom X++ code to try and fork off of it. Perhaps by changing the drilldown target in the URL and handling that way, or appending some special characters to the string.
Call "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics AX\50\Client\Bin\Ax32.exe" -startupcmd=myfunction_myParams and make that a clickable link.

You have answered your own question, but it is quite easy (if you know how) to hook on the standard DrillDown code to customize AX to start a specific form like:
Starts AX on item 03310511 in company XXX
start dynamics://TEST/?DrillDown_0?table=InventTable&field=itemId&value=03310511&company=XXX
It will assume reasonable defaults.
start dynamics://TEST/?DrillDown_0?table=CustTable&value=113545
And AX can be called from a HTML e-mail, assuming the receiver has an AX client!
113545
You find my customization in my pastebin.

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UI5-Application: Call to functionimport works ONLY in WebIDE but fails everywhere else

We are developing a custom UI5 application.
It is developed in the WebIDE, and therefore deployed as a BSP.
When we use the underlying model for calls ( currently 3, no CRUD ), we chose the path of using ONLY functionimports to communicate with the backend.
All of them work with the POST method.
And all of them work ONLY inside the WebIDE.
Once, I access the BSP URL otherwise, we get HTTP 500 error with "error while requesting the ressource.
We already created links, to enable special portfowarding, no result.
Let's stick to my URL from the BSP first.
I paste it into my 3 browsers: 500.
We also created a special non dialogue-user with proper roles and permissions, and in the SICF tree we assigned it .
Again, when calling from inside the WebIDE, the functionimport-calls work, otherwise not.
Error-Logs are empty.
Dumps do not happen.
ST05 trace shows where 500 is passed, deeply inside the HTTP framework, yet no chance to spot the code location, neither a breaktpoint.
In SICF logon-settings we have:
Types all, also flagged "all", SAML: inherited from parent node, sec-sessions Not limited, fix user and pw, sec: Standard, auth:Standard Sap user.
The gui-options contain ONLY one flag: ~CHECK_CSRF_TOKEN 0.
In my client I use :
Where the model is initialized as :
function initModelV2() {
var sUrl = "/sap/opu/odata/sap/Z_this_is_a_company_secret_service/";
var oModel = new sap.ui.model.odata.v2.ODataModel(sUrl);
sap.ui.getCore().setModel(oModel);
}
What else can I do to get "at least closer" to the reason, WHY ?
I could solve it, and believe it or not, sometimes simple logic helps.
I debugged the backend of CL_HTTP_RESPONSE, and once I saw, GET_STATUS, I thought to look for SET_STATUS.
There it was:
this.rModel.setHeaders( {"X-Requested-With" : "X" } );
Was missing.
Though I set it in the manifest of my model, it was not passed.
Once set in the code, it worked.
I wonder, why it is not accepted in manifest.
I have an assumption.
1st: I have this in my manifest ( yellow arrow shows, where i HAD it set up before):
But I also have an instantiation in my code, in servicebindings.js with this code
Can it be, that, in the end, I have accidently created 2 models ?

Ctypes mozilla unknown error

In a mozille extension I run:
SecSess.Logger.info("ctypes test");
Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/ctypes.jsm");
SecSess.Logger.info("1");
this.lib = ctypes.open("libcrypto.so");
SecSess.Logger.info("2");
var a = new Uint8Array(1<<10);
SecSess.Logger.info("3");
var ptr = new ctypes.uint8_t.ptr(a.buffer);
SecSess.Logger.info("4");
Why this ugly logging after each step you might ask? Well this code fails without showing me an error. (or at least I can't find the error message)
This is printed:
ctypes test
1
2
3
So the 5th log message is never printed which means the following statement never completes:
var ptr = new ctypes.uint8_t.ptr(a.buffer);
This is a simplified version of some old code I have to work with and which I also found online as being valid. However it doesn't work. This add-on wasn't developped using the new SDK with jpm. Quite frankly I don't know how and when it was developped but I need to run some tests on it. It comes with a few source files ordered in a components and a modules directory and a chrome.manifest and install.rdf in the root. I copied these files to the extension directory of Mozilla in order for it to work. The extension executes but there seems to be a problem with ctypes. Aren't ctypes fully supported anymore or are these old style add-on no longer valid for the modern Firefox?
Regards,
Roel
I think they landed a a patch to disallow making a pointer from buffers. I'll double check.
Edit:
Ah per this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/js-ctypes/Using_js-ctypes/Working_with_ArrayBuffers, you don't have to wrap it with a ctypes.uint8_t.ptr just pass it like a.buffer to wherever you need it. :)

How to know the URL of a current Navigator

You are about to read many grammatical mistakes, sorry, I am not native to English language.
Hello, I am developing a simple software that counts the time you spend on applications, at the begin wasn't complicated, but now they request me to identify when the application is a navigator like Chrome, Firefox or IE. Then it has to identify what URL is currently in use to start count how much the user waste on all the open pages, but I don't know how to identify if is a navigator, obviously which URL is on it.
OUTPUT EXAMPLE (output.txt)
Process Used:
netbeans 00:04:43 <- Done
calc 00:23:12 <- Done
chrome(www.facebook.com) 00:01:02 <- Dont know how
chrome(www.9gag.com) 00:17:23 <- Dont know how
Global
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern IntPtr GetWindowThreadProcessId(IntPtr hWnd, out uint ProcessId);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
private static extern IntPtr GetForegroundWindow();
This is the way i get the current process name that is in use
GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd, out pid);
System.Diagnostics.Process p = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessById((int)pid);
String NOMBRE = p.ProcessName.ToString();
Hope some can help me. Thanks!
Really no easy answers. "Navigators" are called web browsers, to help you in searching.
For the OS, they are regular programs, nothing special. In particular, the OS has no idea about the URL currently shown. That's a good thing, btw - the introduction of tabbed browsing means that you often have multiple tabs and thus multiple URLs open at the same time. If the OS knew about "the URL" of a webbrowser, it would have had major issues with tabbed browsing.
A good idea is to compare the URL in a webbrowser with the current score in a game. Both are simple variables, conceptually, but the OS doesn't try to track game scores either.
You can of course implement such a thing per type of webbrowser, but it takes work.

Why is COMMON_APPDATA returned as a null string on Windows XP

One of my users at a large university (with, I imagine, the aggressive security settings that university IT departments general have on their computers) is getting an empty string returned by Windows XP for CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA or CSIDL_PERSONAL. (I'm not sure which of these is returning the empty string, because I haven't yet examined his computer to see how he's installed the software, but I'm pretty sure it's the COMMON_APPDATA...)
Has anyone encountered this or have suggestions on how to deal with this?
Here's the Delphi code I'm using to retrieve the value:
Function GetSpecialFolder( FolderID: Integer):String;
var
PIDL: PItemIDList;
Path: array[0..MAX_PATH] of Char;
begin
SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(Application.Handle, FolderID, PIDL);
SHGetPathFromIDList(PIDL, Path);
Result := Path;
end; { GetSpecialFolder }
ShowMessage(GetSpecialFolder(CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA)); <--- This is an empty string
Edit:
Figuring out this API made me feel like I was chasing my tail - I went in circles trying to find the right call. This method and others similar to it are said to be deprecated by Microsoft (as well as by a earlier poster to this question (#TLama?) who subsequently deleted the post.) But, it seems like most of us, including me, regularly and safely ignore that status.
In my searches, I found a good answer here on SO from some time ago, including sample code for the non-deprecated way of doing this: what causes this error 'Unable to write to application file.ini'.
If you want to find out why an API call is failing you need to check the return values. That's what is missing in this code.
You need to treat each function on its own merits. Read the documentation on MSDN. In the case of SHGetSpecialFolderLocation, the return value is an HRESULT. For SHGetPathFromIDList you get back a BOOL. If that is FALSE then the call failed.
The likely culprit here is SHGetSpecialFolderLocation, the code that receives the CSIDL, but you must check for errors whenever you call Windows API functions.
Taking a look at the documentation for CSIDL we see this:
CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA
Version 5.0. The file system directory that contains application data for all users. A typical path is C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data. This folder is used for application data that
is not user specific. For example, an application can store a
spell-check dictionary, a database of clip art, or a log file in the
CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA folder. This information will not roam and is
available to anyone using the computer.
If the machine has a shell version lower than 5.0, then this CSIDL value is not supported. That's the only documented failure mode for this CSIDL value. I don't think that applies to your situation, so you'll just have to see what the HRESULT status code has to say.

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For debugging purposes in a somewhat closed system, I have to output text to a file.
Does anyone know of a tool that runs on windows (console based or not) that detects changes to a file and outputs them in real-time?
I like tools that will perform more than one task, Notepad++ is a great notepad replacement and has a Document Monitor plugin (installs with standard msi) that works great. It also is portable so you can have it on a thumb drive for use anywhere.
For a command line option, PowerShell (which is really a new command line) has a great feature already mentioned.
Get-Content someFile.txt -wait
But you can also filter at the command line using a regular expression
Get-Content web.log -wait | where { $_ -match "ERROR" }
Tail for Win32
Apache Chainsaw - used this with log4net logs, may require file to be in a certain format
When using Windows PowerShell you can do the following:
Get-Content someFile.txt -wait
I use "tail -f" under cygwin.
I use BareTail for doing this on Windows. It's free and has some nice features, such as tabs for tailing multiple files and configurable highlighting.
Tail is the best answer so far.
If you don't use Windows, you probably already have tail.
If you do use Windows, you can get a whole slew of Unix command line tools from here. Unzip them and put them somewhere in your PATH.
Then just do this at the command prompt from the same folder your log file is in:
tail -n 50 -f whatever.log
This will show you the last 50 lines of the file and will update as the file updates.
You can combine grep with tail with great results - something like this:
tail -n 50 -f whatever.log | grep Error
gives you just lines with "Error" in it.
Good luck!
FileSystemWatcher works a treat, although you do have to be a little careful about duplicate events firing - 1st link from Google - but bearing that in mind can produce great results.
Late answer, though might be helpful for someone -- LOGEXPERT seems to be interesting tail utility for windows.
Try SMSTrace from Microsoft (now called CMTrace, and directly available in the Start Menu on some versions of Windows)
Its a brilliant GUI tool that monitors updates to any text file in real time, even if its locked for writing by another file.
Don't be fooled by the description, its capable of monitoring any file, including .txt, .log or .csv.
Its ability to monitor locked files is extremely useful, and is one of the reasons why this utility shines.
One of the nicest features is line coloring. If it sees the word "ERROR", the line becomes red. If it sees the word "WARN", the line becomes yellow. This makes the logs a lot easier to follow.
I have used FileSystemWatcher for monitoring of text files for a component I recently built. There may be better options (I never found anything in my limited research) but that seemed to do the trick nicely :)
Crap, my bad, you're actually after a tool to do it all for you..
Well if you get unlucky and want to roll your own ;)
Yor can use the FileSystemWatcher in System.Diagnostics.
From MSDN:
public class Watcher
{
public static void Main()
{
Run();
}
[PermissionSet(SecurityAction.Demand, Name="FullTrust")]
public static void Run()
{
string[] args = System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs();
// If a directory is not specified, exit program.
if(args.Length != 2)
{
// Display the proper way to call the program.
Console.WriteLine("Usage: Watcher.exe (directory)");
return;
}
// Create a new FileSystemWatcher and set its properties.
FileSystemWatcher watcher = new FileSystemWatcher();
watcher.Path = args[1];
/* Watch for changes in LastAccess and LastWrite times, and
the renaming of files or directories. */
watcher.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastAccess | NotifyFilters.LastWrite
| NotifyFilters.FileName | NotifyFilters.DirectoryName;
// Only watch text files.
watcher.Filter = "*.txt";
// Add event handlers.
watcher.Changed += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged);
watcher.Created += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged);
watcher.Deleted += new FileSystemEventHandler(OnChanged);
watcher.Renamed += new RenamedEventHandler(OnRenamed);
// Begin watching.
watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
// Wait for the user to quit the program.
Console.WriteLine("Press \'q\' to quit the sample.");
while(Console.Read()!='q');
}
// Define the event handlers.
private static void OnChanged(object source, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
// Specify what is done when a file is changed, created, or deleted.
Console.WriteLine("File: " + e.FullPath + " " + e.ChangeType);
}
private static void OnRenamed(object source, RenamedEventArgs e)
{
// Specify what is done when a file is renamed.
Console.WriteLine("File: {0} renamed to {1}", e.OldFullPath, e.FullPath);
}
}
You can also follow this link Watching Folder Activity in VB.NET
Snake Tail. It is a good option.
http://snakenest.com/snaketail/
Just a shameless plug to tail onto the answer, but I have a free web based app called Hacksaw used for viewing log4net files. I've put in an auto refresh options so you can give yourself near real time updates without having to refresh the browser all the time.
Yeah I've used both Tail for Win32 and tail on Cygwin. I've found both to be excellent, although I prefer Cygwin slightly as I'm able to tail files over the internet efficiently without crashes (Tail for Win32 has crashed on me in some instances).
So basically, I would use tail on Cygwin and redirect the output to a file on my local machine. I would then have this file open in Vim and reload (:e) it when required.
+1 for BareTail. I actually use BareTailPro, which provides real-time filtering on the tail with basic search strings or search strings using regex.
To make the list complete here's a link to the GNU WIN32 ports of many useful tools (amongst them is tail).
GNUWin32 CoreUtils
Surprised no one has mentioned Trace32 (or Trace64). These are great (free) Microsoft utilities that give a nice GUI and highlight any errors, etc. It also has filtering and sounds like exactly what you need.
Here's a utility I wrote to do just that:
It uses a FileSystemWatcher to look for changes in log files within local folders or network shares (don't have to be mounted, just provide the UNC path) and appends the new content to the console.
on github: https://github.com/danbyrne84/multitail
http://www.danielbyrne.net/projects/multitail
Hope this helps
#echo off
set LoggingFile=C:\foo.txt
set lineNr=0
:while1
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%i in (`more +%lineNr% %LoggingFile%`) DO (
echo %%i
set /a lineNr+=1
REM Have an appropriate stop condition here by checking i
)
goto :while1
A command prompt way of doing it.
FileMon is a free stand alone tool that can detect all kinds of file access. You can filter out any unwanted. It does not show you the data that has actually changed though.
I second "tail -f" in cygwin. I assume that Tail for Win32 will accomplish the same thing.
Tail for Win32
I did a tiny viewer by my own:
https://github.com/enexusde/Delphi/wiki/TinyLog

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