How do I launch an AJAX app from a Natural greenscreen

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Currently we are launching AJAX apps from green screens in the following way:

  1. Open a mainframe session (greenscreen) within a web browser
  2. Have a JAVAscript looking for a specific value (text string) in a specific position on a greenscreen map
  3. Upon detecting such a value, launch a specific URL (in this case the AJAX app)

Is there a better mechanism to do this instead of having to resort to a JAVAscript running in a browser?

Also, once the AJAX app is closed via a “Cancel button” (in effect just escaping from the Natural program, how do we return to the greenscreen?

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This is documented in the Windows version of Natural for AJAX. If this link doesn’t work:
[url]http://techcommunity.softwareag.com/ecosystem/documentation/natural/nat637win/njx/njx-devcode.htm#njx-devcode-map[/url],
then get the manual and navigate to
Developing the Application Code
→ Using Natural Maps

Below that you’ll see Navigating between Pages and Maps. There are code samples.

I’m sorry to say that I have not yet tried this myself.