DSXchange

For reasons outside the scope of this question, the system configuration is The (Client) and (Engine) tiers are on a secure network not otherwise accessible to (Users).

That's all very well for "direct" users of client tools such as the BG Browser.

My question is whether there is any way that users "out there" (Users) can use Businss Glossary Anywhere and, if so, how to configure it.

Are you planning on having each of those users install BGA on their machines locally? (ie...without Citrix in the mix for those users)? Ultimately they just need to see the WAS at the center......

...and alternative which might be far more attractive from a distribution perspective, though requiring some coding, would be to use the REST API and code your own widget. Then the security and access logic will sit at a web server (somewhere), and it would then be the only client that "talks" directly to WAS, enlisting your own custom search algorithms (the REST API provides search functions that are just about the same as in BGA, and can be made more powerful via custom code).

Ernie

It depends on how you are using Citrix, but in either case it is possible to use BGA. There are two possible ways to configure Citrix:

1) Desktop sharing - the user receives a full desktop with all applications including BGA.

2) Application sharing - only certain applications are published from the Citrix server to the clients. Clients click an icon on their local desktop and the application starts from the Citrix server as if it were a local application.

In the first scenario, all applications are running on the Citrix server just as if BGA was installed on a local PC so no special considerations are necessary.

In the second scenario, users will need to start the BGA Citrix application as soon as they authenticate to the Citrix server. You will need to configure the option on the Citrix server that allows the local client desktops to send the Alt + Tab key combinations to the server so BGA can respond. BGA should then open an Internet Explorer window on the server and send it to the client when they use the Alt + Tab key combination.

Thank you for that. It's definitely a second scenario situation.

Investigation continues...

(There is strong corporate resistance to Ernie's suggestion. They expect the product to work out of the box as advertised, despite their unusual network configuration.)

Still......it's a Citrix configuration issue then.... not an issue for BGA itself. Is the concern the need to install and maintain many BGA's? If so, then Citrix is a great idea.

Ernie