Using Niagara Web Launcher

The Niagara 4.8 (and later) installation includes Niagara Web Launcher. For earlier Niagara releases, the minimum version of the web-rt patch module that needs to be installed to run Niagara Web Launcher is as follows:

NiagaraAX-3.8U4 and subsequent updates
Niagara 4.4U3 and subsequent updates
Niagara 4.7U1 and subsequent updates
Niagara 4.8 and subsequent releases
Niagara 4.9

When using this feature the web browser is needed only to download the installer file.

Once the installer file (NiagaraWebLauncher*.msi) is downloaded, it installs the Niagara Web Launcher application on your device. The Niagara Web Launcher file (webLauncher.exe), which is saved to the C:\ProgramFiles\Niagara Web Launcher directory by default, is used to launch the application. After installation has completed, you can configure a Windows shortcut for the file. The browser is not needed again.

NOTE: In Niagara 4.4 and later, by default Web Launcher can no longer be used to navigate to arbitrary Web addresses. The only way to directly load URLs is by first configuring a whitelist in the station's !defaults/system.properties file. For example, if your station includes Px pages that include embedded WebBrowsers to external URLs, or hyperlinks to external URLs, then you must configure the whitelist to allow Web Launcher/Web Start to load those URLs. For more details, see “Configuring the web browser whitelist” in Getting Started with Niagara.

Using Niagara Web Launcher

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