What better way is there to start a blog on Adobe LiveCycle Mosaic than to blog about a new way to start Mosaic? Our latest release, ES2 9.5, includes command-line arguments that allow you to specify the user, password, server, and application to start when launching the Mosaic AIR client. For example:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe LiveCycle Mosaic\Adobe LiveCycle Mosaic.exe" -user designer -pwd password -server http://localhost:8080 -app ClientDashboard
Here’s how to do the same thing with an Ant script:
<property name="username" value="designer"/>
<property name="password" value="password"/>
<property name="protocol" value="http"/>
<property name="server" value="localhost"/>
<property name="port" value="8080"/>
<property name="mosaic_application" value="ClientDashboard"/>
<property name="mosaic_air_exe_file" value="Adobe LiveCycle Mosaic.exe"/>
<property name="mosaic_air_exe_dir" location="C:/Program Files (x86)/Adobe LiveCycle Mosaic"/>
<property name="mosaic_air_exe_path" location="${mosaic_air_exe_dir}/${mosaic_air_exe_file}"/>
<!-- Start Mosaic AIR application with command-line arguments -->
<exec failonerror="true" executable="${mosaic_air_exe_path}">
<arg value="-user"/>
<arg value="${username}"/>
<arg value="-pwd"/>
<arg value="${password}"/>
<arg value="-server"/>
<arg value="${protocol}://${server}:${port}"/>
<arg value="-app"/> <!-- Specify application to start -->
<arg value="${mosaic_application}"/>
</exec>
Note: If the Mosaic AIR client is already started, this command will bring it to the front, but won’t change the running application.