Mirth Launcher: add field for custom java CLI arguments and login credentials

[tom08zehn]

The Launcher should have an extra field for command line arguments and save it with the connection parameters.

Example: to launch Mirth Administrator in a custom timezone: you could add -J-Duser.timezone=America/Los_Angeles (see mockup screenshot below).

Also, please could you add 2 fields for username and password and store it with the connection parameters so the user can instantly login?

[jonbartels]

Regarding JVM args - Do any of the vmoptions files in your MCAL installation directory appear to change the behavior?

jonathan.bartels@REM-JonathanBartels Contents % find ./ -name "*.vmop*"
.//java/app/mcadministrator/windows-x64/launch.vmoptions
.//java/app/mcadministrator/macos/launch.vmoptions
.//java/app/mcadministrator/macos/launchnoprofile.vmoptions
.//java/app/mcadministrator/unix/launch.vmoptions
.//java/app/mcadministrator/windows/launch.vmoptions
jonathan.bartels@REM-JonathanBartels Contents % find ./ -name "*.vmop*" -exec cat {} \;
-Xdock:name=Mirth Connect Administrator 4.0.1
jonathan.bartels@REM-JonathanBartels Contents % 

I'm on a Mac so that "dock" argument would seem to set the name of the MC instances icon when the MC client runs.

Regarding passwords - I do not think this is a good feature idea. MCAL should not be a password manager, there are many good password managers available already. It would be ideal if MC had the right hooks so that password managers could auto-fill the MC logins. I will admit I do not know how such hooks would work or exist though.

MC also has several SSO integrations such as:

• https://github.com/ChristopherSchultz/mirth-plugins has an open source LDAP and MFA plugin
• NextGen sells their LDAP extension

Instead of having to remember many MC passwords it would be better to integrate it with an existing user directory.

[jonbartels]

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