2 AIR Questions: Launching applications and Viewing PDFs...

I am thinking of purchasing Adobe Flex Builder 3 and planning to have the app run on multiple platforms.
I have three major questions:
1. In an AIR program, how do I go about opening/accessing Word documents and/or PDF files (whether by launching Acrobat Reader/Microsoft Word or opening it in AIR)?
2. Is it true that an AIR application can not execute other applications? If so, do I need to add a plug-in for that (ie: Shu)?
Regards,
John M.

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I'm using Windows 8.1 update 1 with IE.
I found a very strange problem,
If I changed the setting of:
Security tab-> Internet -> Custom level -> Miscellaneous -> Launching applications and unsafe file,
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Reset button indeed can't change it as default. I also could reproduce this issue.
Thanks for your feedback and I have already submitted to our development team.
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My first ADF application in JDeveloper is off to a difficult start. Having come from a forms background, I know that it is necessary avoid using post-query type lookups in order to have full filtering using F11/Ctrl+F11. This means creating an CRUDable view and getting as much of the lookup data as possible into the view without losing the ability to modify the data. In JDeveloper, I do not know how to build my data model to support that. My thought was to start with a robust updateable view as my main CRUD EO and then create a VO on top of that with additional EOs or VOs. But, I have found that I cannot add VOs to another VO. However, if I link the VOs then I have a master-detail which will not work for me.
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Hi Alejandro,
Sorry if I caused confusion with my first post. What I had in mind assumed that I could have a single CSI_INST_EXTEND_ATTRIB_V EO with a BuildingVO and UnitVO on top of it. So, I wrote the queries individually to show how I would invoke each view. When I realized that confused the issue, I rewrote the query to explain things better.
Now having seen your 2 queries. You need to create 2 EO. One for each table. Then create an association between the 2 aeO (this will be the join you are talking about). Then, you need to create a VO based on one of the EO and after you can modify and add the second EO (in here you select the join type).
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There were three tables in the query: CIEAV_BUILDING, CIEAV_UNIT, and T -- the main CRUD table. When you say that I should create two EOs, do you mean that they are to be for CIEAV_BUILDING and CIEAV_UNIT? Or, CIEAV and T? Assuming CIEAV and T, that sounds like it would allow me to show my building or unit on the record but not both.
By the way, everything is a reference except for the main CRUD table.
Look forward to hearing from you. Thanks for your help (and patience).

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