Hi all.

In our older system we have WinCC Professional V13SP1 in the Win10 OS.

We have a task to open IE (connection to one external device).

I found several topis on the forum, as well as Siemens official KB,  and it seems that only way to this is to use a C scrpit and the ProgramExecute function. Also all of this in conjuction with commands to move external app in the foreground.

To begin as simple as possible I made one button with OnCLick event script

#include "GlobalDefinitions.h" 
void OnClick(char* screenName, char* objectName, char* propertyName)
{
ProgramExecute("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" ); 

}

As I can understand this should open IE in the background.

Unfortunately when I press this button nothing happens, this command will not open any instance of the IE (in the background of the WinCC). IE is version 11.1480, as I can understand it is 32bit (ProgramExecute is limited to 32 bit app).

Also, I tried to open a notepad but still the same, nothing happens, after pressing the button there is no app opening.

Please advise what to check and where is the issue.

Thank you.

Regards

Alen