tasker to open local .html file

[Paul Cristea]

Hello all, I am sure this has been asked before but for the life of me I cannot find the answer.

I want to create a task widget, so on press it will open a local help.html file in the default Internet browser. I have tried the Net>Browse URL option, to no avail. It will work with a www, but not with file/// Help please! Thank you!

[Jay M]

Try with file/open file/ by local you mean the files saved on the phone right?

Path to file

Mime type text/html.

Jay M

On 10 Sep 2014 16:06, "Paul Cristea" <paulgc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all, I am sure this has been asked before but for the life of me I cannot find the answer.

I want to create a task widget, so on press it will open a local help.html file in the default Internet browser. I have tried the Net>Browse URL option, to no avail. It will work with a www, but not with file///  Help please! Thank you!

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[Paul Cristea]

Indeed Jay, thanks for that, it worked!! Yes, it is a internal memory .html.

How do I get to open it with a specific browser though? Thanks again!

[Jay M]

Try app/load app/your browser/

And in the data field put the path to the file.

Untested but I think it will work.

Jay M

On 10 Sep 2014 16:35, "Paul Cristea" <paulgc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Indeed Jay, thanks for that, it worked!! Yes, it is a internal memory .html.

How do I get to open it with a specific browser though? Thanks again!

[Paul Cristea]

Sorry Jay it does not. It will launch the Internet app but will not load any page, internal or ex_eternal...

[Jay M]

I'm outta ideas, I was just messing about trying to get it to work and I noticed when it asked me what app I wanted to open the file in,  the default browser wasn't even in the list by default browser you mean the stock browser right?

Jay M

On 10 Sep 2014 17:01, "Paul Cristea" <paulgc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry Jay it does not. It will launch the Internet app but will not load any page, internal or ex_eternal...

[Paul Cristea]

Yup, the default browser does not even appear in the list, this is why I want to force the page to open with it...

[Matt R]

Here's how to open in chrome:
A1: Send Intent [ Action:android.intent.action.VIEW Cat:Browsable Mime Type:text/html Data:file:///sdcard/Test.html Extra: Extra: Package:com.android.chrome Class:com.google.android.apps.chrome.Main Target:Activity ]

Or in the default browser:
A1: Send Intent [ Action:android.intent.action.VIEW Cat:Browsable Mime Type:text/html Data:file:///sdcard/Test.html Extra: Extra: Package:com.android.browser Class:com.android.browser.BrowserActivity Target:Activity ]

Matt

[DroidsCtrlHumans]

i have a overlay scene to reload a kioskbrowser home page (local html) i have done a tap task with:
kill kioskbrowser;
wait 200ms;
launch kioskbrowser;
wait 10s.
the task have a "abort new task" behaviour

it works on my kiosk and reset home page... any other ideas?