slx://tablename/primarykey


Example:

slx://account/AXXXX0000001

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\slx]
@="SalesLogix Protocol Handler"
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\slx\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Program Files\\SalesLogix\\salesLogix.exe"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\slx\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\slx\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\slx\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\SalesLogix\\SalesLogixUrlLink.exe\" %1"

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

// Add COM reference to 'SalesLogix Library' found in SalesLogix.exe

namespace SlxDeveloper.SalesLogixUrlLink
{
    public class LinkHandler
    {
        [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet=CharSet.Auto)]
        public static extern IntPtr FindWindow(string ClassName, string WindowText);

        static void Main(string[] param) 
        {
            // quit if for whatever reason we didn't get params
            if (param.Length == 0) return;

            // if SalesLogix is not running we don't want to continue
            if (FindWindow(null, "SalesLogix") == IntPtr.Zero)
            {
                MessageBox.Show("SalesLogix is not running.", "SalesLogix Link");
                return;
            }

            // get table name and id value 
            MatchCollection col = new Regex(@"\w+").Matches(param[0]);
            string table = col[1].Value;
            string id = col[2].Value;

            // now we need to load SalesLogix and move to the 
            // mainview for the values passed
            SalesLogix.SlxApplication slx = null;
            try
            {
                slx = new SalesLogix.SlxApplicationClass();

                // call ShowDetails to generically load the mainview 
                // for the table name passed to us and move to the 
                // specified id value
                slx.BasicFunctions.ShowDetails(table, id);
            }
            catch (COMException) { /* eat exception, SalesLogix likely not installed */ }
            finally
            {
                if (slx != null) Marshal.ReleaseComObject(slx);
            }
        }
    }
}

Sub Main
Dim shell
Dim mv
Dim link
Dim recname

    Set mv = Application.MainViews.ActiveView
    link = "slx://" & mv.BaseTable & "/" & mv.CurrentID

    recname = Replace(mv.Caption, " ", "%20")

    Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    shell.Run "mailto:?subject=" & recname & "&body=" & recname & "%0A" & link, 1, false
    Set shell = Nothing
End Sub

Account: Abbott Ltd. 
slx://ACCOUNT/AGHEA0002669

• 3/13/2006 - I just wanted to note (thanks RJLedger) that the current BETA of version 7 uses a format of slx:tablename/primarykey for the links (note no '//' after the colon). However, IMO that is a bug and should be fixed before it's release. Should you wish to use that format now, the code in this article will continue to work with that format thanks to the regular expression (it doesn't really care what it starts with. It will work with slx: as well as slx:// - either way will work for this code. I'll update the article again when I hear back if they've fixed that problem in v7.