# Tk-multi-launchapp opening published files

**URL:** <https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/tk-multi-launchapp-opening-published-files/11715>\
**Category:** Pipeline Integrations\
**Created:** [March 2, 2021, 10:14am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/tk-multi-launchapp-opening-published-files/11715 "2021-03-02T10:14:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![mmoshev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/mmoshev/32/476_2.png) [@mmoshev](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/mmoshev)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 10:14am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/tk-multi-launchapp-opening-published-files/11715/1 "2021-03-02T10:14:27Z")

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Hey, it would be amazing if we can open published files from the website directly.

I already set up `tk-multi-launchpublish` and it works, but that does not let you select a program version and flavor.

Then I configured `tk-multi-launchapp` to use the publish from which it was launched, via `context.source_entity` (if present), which gets appended to the launch arguments. This also works, we can select any software entity to launch with.  
However, it straight opens the file, and does not have the `tk-multi-workfiles` niceties like asking to open the published file as a work file with its version increased, etc.

Is this possible to achieve somehow? Do we need to manually add commands?