Open URL in Default Browser (string) VI
- Updated2025-07-30
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Displays a URL or HTML file in the default Web browser. If the URL or path you wire to this VI contains a space character, the VI encodes the space as %20 before displaying the URL or HTML file in the Web browser. Wire data to the URL input to determine the polymorphic instance to use or manually select the instance.
(Real-Time Module) You cannot use this VI in VIs that run on RT targets.

Inputs/Outputs
URL
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URL is the URL you want to display in the default Web browser. For example, wire http://www.site.com/report.html to this input to display the HTML file report.html on the Web Server www.site.com in the browser.
error in (no error)
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error in describes error conditions that occur before this node runs. This input provides standard error in functionality.
URL out
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URL out is the URL displayed in the Web browser.
error out
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error out contains error information. This output provides standard error out functionality. |
URL
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error in (no error)
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URL out
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error out
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