Hi all.

SLX LAN v7.2.1 here.

Don't know if this is at all possible, but I have a windows form I created in vb.net via Visual Studio 2008 that contains some of our in house data we store on our SQL Server. One of the fields in this external windows form is the SalesLogix AccountID field. I thought it would be really cool if our end users could right click a datagrid we have and it would open the windows form (myForm) and automatically populate the AccountID field that's on that form with the AccountID in the datagrid.

Again, don't know if this is at all possible but I thought I'd ask.

Thank you in advance!

Yes. You can - if you go into SLX and goto account you'll notice on the Edit | Copy Link to Clipboard function. This puts the following into the clipboard:

SLX:account/{accountid}

So, you just need your grid to call this as a standard windows open - as the protocol handler is installed when SLX is installed. If SLX is closed, SLX will open and then move to that account. If already open, it will move to that record.

You can also do this for contact (e.g. SLX:contact/{contactID}, opportunity etc.

THanks Mike. But what I meant is: I'm in SalesLogix, I right-click the datagrid in SalesLogix and then that opens my Windows Form (myForm.exe) and populates one of the form's textboxes. Instead of external form to SalesLogix, I would like to do it the other way around: From SalesLogix to external windows form.

Ah right. Well, you can definitely obtain the accountid from SLX - how to pass that to your app is going to be down to your app and, perhaps, either via a command line option that it receives or - if it's a .NET component - you can pass an array/ID in via the calling of the .NET app.

Check Application.Managed.Run for details on how to do this.