Thanks George...


>>Hi George,
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>>Just curious, why are you advocating API calls as opposed to automation code?
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>In the case of his first question, automation had already been mention, so it was another example of what could be done. Further, it isn't always necessary to use automation. Generate a report from a query for example and copy to a spreadsheet. The user may want to do any one of a number of things with the result set. Interacting directly with the actual application may, under those circumstance, be more appropriate.
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>The second question was regarding how he could tell if the app was already running. So it was simply a direct answer to the actual queston.