External Program actions allow you to launch a program on your computer. You specify the path to the program you wish to run and any arguments to pass in to the program when it is launched (Typically leave this blank unless you need to specify some set of arguments).
The following options can be enabled when executing a program:
- Show Window: Shows the visual window of the program
- Shell Execute: Whether to use the Windows shell when running the executable
- Wait Until Complete: Waits until the program has finished executing
- Save Output: Stores any text output from the program into the following Special Identifiers:
$externalprogramresult.