What is the My Tools area for and how is it used? When I click Add it says URL. What URL would I specify?
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The My Tools area is used for websites that you visit often, such as CNet.com or Wikipedia.com, Google.com, etc. The URL refers to the URL of the site.
Another use is for other web-based tools you use while maintaining your network. For instance, you could list the web interfaces for various devices like a router, firewall, or maybe some software-as-a-serivce providers that you use.
This was the original intended purpose, although it does work for Google, etc.
I would use it for web based tools that we use to manage the network such as Dell’s OpenManage, Whats Up Gold, or Cisco Works. That way I have a single place, Spiceworks, from which to launch all of the tools that I need through out the day. Or at least the ones that are web based.
Mike makes the point I have been thinking about every since I installed SW 4 days ago! What if my tools isn’t web based? Could you spicy guru’s at SW extend the My Tools function to also launch non-web based tools?
Huh, please?
Jim60, the trick about web based applications and security is that there isn’t a good way to launch non-web based applications from within the browser. If a browser window could access local applications then it would be a huge security hole.
of course.
(or perhaps I was making an impossible request in homage to the spicy guru’s. or not 
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Perhaps, though, they could find a way to save all of our tool passwords along with the link to help with my failing memory.
Try a search in the community for cilantro or check out this link
Should be what you are thinking of, but I haven’t tried it myself.
