I have a program installed locally on the Citrix server and configured to be a published application. It pulls data from a network drive via drive letters, and the drive letter is only available after the login script runs for the user (specified in Active Directory). The problem is that it looks like when Citrix tries to launch the published app from the web interface, it flies through the step of running the login script and immediately tries to launch the application (before the drives are available), and so I get an error from the program that basically means the drives aren't mapped. If I immediately try to re-launch the published app after this error message, it works fine (I am assuming because now the drives have been mapped from the previous attempt).
But I want it to work right the first time, so that people don't have to click on the icon, wait for the error message, then click on it again. I already tried enabling the option that makes it wait for printers to be created before launching the application. Unfortunately this didn't fix the problem.
It's not like the login script is very complicated--I think it has maybe 5 commands in it altogether, and 4 of them are commands to map various drive letters.
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Create a script that maps the drives and then launches the application. In this case, instead of publishing the actual application, you publish the script. In other words, instead of creating a login script you create a "launch script". Such launch scripts typically have the following structure:
1.Delete current drive mappings - this is in case the application is being launched a second time and the drives are already mapped
2.Map the drive letters that are needed
3.Launch the application
4.Exit the script
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by: dphantomPosted on 2009-08-06 at 09:08:19ID: 25035062
put a pause in the script that times out after x seconds?