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All information related to the product can be found from products.technia.com

  1. Go to https://products.technia.com

  2. Login

    1. Customers receive login details separately

    2. TECHNIA employees use domain credentials

  3. Go to the Light My Way tab

    1. You should now find a page describing the product and 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, retaining 'OOTB' and 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

  1. Open Chrome or Edge

  2. Find and click the chrome store author links from products.technia.com

    1. Chrome store extensions also works on Edge, you might have to enable chrome extensions by clicking the blue ribbon

  3. Click “Add to Chrome” or “Get” (depends browser)

  4. In the browser menu find “Extensions” → “Manage extensions” and go into the details of the Light My Way Author Extension

    1. Find the version info. Note that the client will automatically update as new versions are pushed to the store.

    2. Find “site access” and apply a pattern so that the client tabs only shows for desired target platform URLs.

      1. To ensure data access make sure that “*://lmw.technia.cloud” is added

Exercise 3 - Installing client by registry

  1. Find the “current release” on products.technia.com

  2. Download “sample-consumer.reg”

  3. Edit the reg file and consider its content

  4. Modify “runtime_allowed_hosts” to include your desired target platform URL

  5. Execute / install the reg file

  6. Find the consumer extension in your browser extensions list

    1. Note the source “Recommended by your organisation”

    2. Note that “runtime_allowed_hosts” is not reflected in the site access list

  7. Manually disable the client extension to prevent conflict with author

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

  1. Go to https://lmw.technia.cloud/admin

  2. Login using the sandbox account

    1. User : sandbox

    2. Pass: admin

  3. From the top bar select “Add +” → “Create New Repository”

  4. Fill out repo detail and press add

    1. Author keys will be you passkey for authoring

Exercise 5 - Connecting

  1. Navigate to the target platform environment (URL)

  2. Find the author extension in the browser menu and click the green 'L' icon

  3. Enter https://lmw.technia.cloud/sandbox/<repo>

  4. Press tab and you should see “Connected successfully”

  5. “LIGHT MY WAY“ and “AUTHOR“ panel tabs should now be visible to the right

  6. Click the “AUTHOR“ tab and enter your author passkey (exercise 3.1)

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