Product information & links
All information related to the product can be found from products.technia.com
Exercise 1 - Find information & links
Login
Customers receive login details separately
TECHNIA employees use domain credentials
Go to the Light My Way tab
View the page content, links to documentation, support, extension etc
Client installation
The client is distributed as a web extension, this means that it is not actually installed to the target environment but rather in selected client browsers. This have several benefits such as making it possible to add guides to inaccessible cloud platforms but also ensuring a minimal footprint and retaining 'OOTB'. On top of that you are not dependent on server deployment to get the guides in either.
Manual client installation is primarily used for trial or authoring. For enterprise distribution and proper rollouts on numerous clients registry is preferred and normally pushed by IT.
Exercise 2 - Manual client installation
Open Chrome or Edge
Find and click the chrome store extension link from products.technia.com (Chrome store extensions also works on Edge but you might have to enable chrome extensions by clicking the blue ribbon)
Click “Add to Chrome” or “Get” (depends browser)
In the browser menu find “Extensions” → “Manage extensions” and go into the details of the “Light My Way” extension.
Find the version info (the client will automatically update on browser restart as new versions are released to the store)
Apply a “site access” pattern so that the client tabs only shows for target platform URLs
To ensure data access make sure that “*://lmw.technia.cloud” is added
Verify that the extension activates for target platforms only (refresh tab)
Manually remove the extension
Note that manual client installation is not recommended (easy to make configuration mistakes e.g. site access list)
Exercise 3 - Installing client by registry
Find the “current release” on products.technia.com
Download “sample-addition.reg”
Edit the “.reg” file in a text editor and consider its content
Modify “runtime_allowed_hosts” to include your desired target platform URL (be careful on the syntax)
Execute / install the “.reg” file
Find the registry entry
Restart browser
Find the author extension in your browser extensions list
Note the source “Added by your organisation”
Note that “runtime_allowed_hosts” is not displayed in the site access list
(OPTIONAL) Find the accessToken and give yourself a top secret and unique key (use password generator?)
Execute / install the “.reg” file
Find the key in registry
(OPTIONAL) add “-” before the key in .reg to remove it.
Restart browser
Add it back
The reg file is normally distributed to selected clients by customer IT
Repository setup
A repository is where the guide data is stored. The target environment is not directly tied to a specific repo but the client could connect to different repos to present different guides. Normally customers have one repo for production use and other repos for authoring of new guides.
A repo can also hold specific configurations such as extensions to the built in definition for new targets or custom app states.
Exercise 4 - Create a repository
Go to https://lmw.technia.cloud/admin and login
From the top bar select “Add +” → “Create New Repository”
Fill out repo detail and press add
Author keys will be you passkey for authoring
Admin activities is normally done by TECHNIA or specially trained customer administrators.
Exercise 5 - Connecting
Navigate to the target platform environment (URL)
Find the author extension in the browser menu and click the green 'L' icon
Press tab and you should see “Connected successfully”
“LIGHT MY WAY“ and “AUTHOR“ panel tabs should now be visible to the right
Click the “AUTHOR“ tab and enter your author passkey
Auto connect is normally setup for end user convenience
