Installation and Setup Guide

Supported Queries
This topic lists the queries that are supported for this type of Horizon Client. If you are creating URIs for
multiple types of clients, such as desktop clients and mobile clients, see the Using VMware Horizon Client
guide for each type of client system.
action
Table 2‑1. Values That Can Be Used With the action Query
Value Description
browse
Displays a list of available desktops and applications hosted on the
specified server. You are not required to specify a desktop or application
when using this action.
If you use the browse action and specify a desktop or application, the
desktop or application is highlighted in the list of available items.
start-session
Opens the specified desktop or application. If no action query is provided
and the desktop or application name is provided, start-session is the
default action.
reset
Shuts down and restarts the specified desktop. Unsaved data is lost.
Resetting a remote desktop is the equivalent of pressing the Reset
button on a physical PC. Specifying an application is not supported. If
you specify an application, an error message appears.
If you do not specify a desktop or application, Horizon Client quits all
published applications.
restart
Shuts down and restarts the specified desktop. Restarting a remote
desktop is the equivalent of the Windows operating system restart
command. The operating system usually prompts the user to save any
unsaved data before it restarts.
logoff
Logs the user out of the guest operating system in the remote desktop. If
you specify an application, the action is ignored or the end user sees the
warning message "Invalid URI action."
args Specifies command-line arguments to add to published application launch.
Use the syntax args=value, where value is a string. Use percent encoding
for the following characters:
n
For a colon (:), use %3A
n
For a back slash (\), use %5C
n
For a space ( ), use %20
n
For a double quotation mark ("), use %22
For example, to specify the filename "My new file.txt" for the Notepad
++ application, use %22My%20new%20file.txt%22.
appProtocol For published applications, valid values are PCOIP and BLAST. For
example, to specify PCoIP, use the syntax appProtocol=PCOIP.
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