Action Limitations

You cannot use Create Action to create the action for an application if any of the following conditions are true:

• The command line requires a non-file argument (parameter).

  For example, you cannot use Create Action to write an action for the command:

	lp -ddevice filename

where the user has to supply device each time the command is executed.

• The application icon must have a different label than the action name.

  For example, you cannot use Create Action to provide a local-language version of an existing action.

• The action requires any of the advanced features of the action database.

  Examples of these advanced features are actions that:

  • Launch commands on systems remote from the action definition

  • Invoke other actions

  • Must be run as a different user (for example, as superuser)

  • Make extensive use of the ``map'' feature

  • Have very different behaviors depending on the number of file arguments supplied to the action