Select Action Dialog Box

Getting there

Because you can specify an action to complete almost any task in InfoConnect, there are several ways to access the Select Action dialog box:

Keyboard Mapper

Open a terminal session.

Open the InfoConnect Keyboard Mapper dialog box.

The steps depend on your user interface mode.

User Interface Mode	Steps
Ribbon	On the Tools tab, click Keyboard Mapper.
InfoConnect Browser	On the InfoConnect menu, choose Tools, and then Keyboard Mapper.
TouchUX	Tap the Wrench icon and then under Tools, select Keyboard Mapper.
Classic MDI	On the View menu, click Keyboard Map. (From VT sessions go to Setup > Keyboard.)

Press a key or keyboard combination and then click Select Action.

Mouse Mapper

Open a session document.
Open the Mouse Mapper dialog box as follows:

Position your mouse on the image to the left and click a mouse button or mouse and key combination.

The steps depend on your user interface mode.

User Interface Mode	Steps
Ribbon	On the Tools tab, click Mouse Mapper.
InfoConnect Browser	On the InfoConnect menu, choose Tools, and then Mouse Mapper.
TouchUX	Tap the Gear icon and then select Document Settings. Under Input Devices, click Manage Mouse Map. Then choose whether to modify the current mouse map or create a new map.

Click Select Action.

UI Designer

Open a session document.
On the Ribbon, click the Appearance tab.
From the Menus group, click UI Designer.
From the Insert Controls pane, click the Button control, and then click the Select Action button in the Settings pane.

Context Menu Editor

Open a session document.

Open the Context Menu Editor as follows:

The steps depend on your user interface mode.

User Interface Mode	Steps
Ribbon	Click the Appearance tab and in the Menus group, select Context Menu.
InfoConnect Browser	On the InfoConnect menu, choose View and then choose Context Menu.
TouchUX	Tap the Wrench icon and then under View, select Context Menu.

Click Select Action.

Hotspots

Open a session document.

The steps depend on your user interface mode.

User Interface Mode	Steps
Ribbon or InfoConnect Browser	With a session open in InfoConnect, from the Quick Access Toolbar, click .
TouchUX	Tap the Gear icon and then select Document Settings.

Under Terminal Appearance, click Manage Hotspots.
Click Modify the currently selected hotspots file.
Enter or select hotspot text, and then click Select Action.

From this dialog box, you can assign an action or a function to a mouse button, keyboard key, hotspot, or menu item. An action can be any action you can perform within InfoConnect, such as sending keystrokes, running a macro, executing a menu command, navigating to a recorded host screen page, transferring a file, or printing.

Actions are divided into categories listed in the task pane on the left, and the actions or functions available for assignment to an item depends on the selected category. Some functions also require additional information, such as the keystrokes to send for a Send Key command.

The settings for Other Action appear by default. A description for each task-pane item follows.

Other Action

Action category	Select from the list of feature sets that include programmable actions.
Action	Select the desired programmable action.
Action parameters	Specify any additional settings required to program the action. For example, if you select the action Launch Application, you must specify the application name and a working directory under Action parameters.

Send Key

Key	Select an Action Identifier (AID) key from the list.

Send Text

Text to send to host	Enter the text you want to send when the action runs. You can do this in two ways:
Select a special character	Select the special character to send.
	NOTE:If the Select a special character list doesn't have the character data you want to send, you can type in the string for the character data in the Text to send to host field. For example, type in <ESC>. Alternatively, you can hold down the ALT key and use the numeric keypad to enter the numeric code for the data. For example, to send <ESC>, enter 027.

Launch Application

NOTE:Before you create an action that opens a file or starts an application, place the file or application in a trusted location A trusted location is a directory that's designated as a secure source for opening files. By default, InfoConnect allows you to open documents only in directories specified as trusted locations using the Specify Trusted Locations dialog box. .

Application name	Type the name of the executable file (EXE) or click Browse to select it.
Parameters	Type any command line parameters you want to use to start the application.
Working directory	Type the path to the folder where the application automatically searches for files.

Open URL

Use matched hotspot text for the URL	Select this check box to create a link from any text string that matches the hotspot. The link opens the specified URL. This option is only available when mapping a hotspot to an action.
URL	Type the desired URL.
Open in new tab	Select to open the specified URL in a new Web document in the workspace.
Open in default browser	Select to start the default Web browser at the specified URL.
Open in existing tab	Select to specify an existing Web page document.
	Note: The document is not available from the drop-down list unless it is already open in the workspace.

Run InfoConnect Workspace Macro

Select macro when action occurs	Select to choose the macro each time you run the action.
Select macro	Select to specify a VBA project that contains the macro from the menu.

Action Sequence

Sequence of actions	Create and list, in order, a series of actions to be performed sequentially. Click Add to specify an action, Delete to remove an action, and Move up or Move down to change the order of the list.
Action category	Select from the list of feature sets that include programmable actions.
Action	Select the desired programmable action.
Action parameters	Specify any additional settings required to program the action. For example, if you select the action Launch Application, you must specify the application name and a working directory under Action parameters.