• Open quickly all of your tools you need to work with XML directly from XMLSpy!
• Configure and run command line tools!
• Show the active HTML document in your favorite Web Browser!
• Use External Tools to check your OpenXML .docx and .xslx files in MS Office and XMLSpy at the same time!

To add any external tool to XMLSpy open the Tools configuration dialog from the Settings page of the control window:

Use the "Command" field to enter the executable or batch file to start. The "..." button allows you to browse for the file. Specify any arguments for the tool in the "Arguments" field of the dialog. The ">" button provides a list of predefined variables which will be expanded at execution of the tool. Please don't forget to put quotes around any argument which is a path to avoid problems with spaces.

External tools can appear on two places in the plugin: As a button on the main window and as a command in the context menu of the Explorer tab. The check boxes "Show tool in Explorer tab context menu" and "Show tool as button" control where the tool is available.

Tools which are started using the button on the main window of the plugin will always get the string from the "Arguments" field as parameters. Just leave the string empty if no arguments make sense here or you just want to start the tool.

Tools which appear in the context menu of the Explorer tab will always get the path of the selected items as argument.

This is how External Tools are displayed as buttons on the main window of the plugin.