Installation & Setup

1 Product information & links
- 1.1 Exercise 1 - Find information & links
2 Repository setup
- 2.1 Exercise 2 - Create a repository
3 Client installation

Product information & links

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

Exercise 1 - Find information & links

Go to https://products.technia.com
Login
1. Customers receive login details separately
2. TECHNIA employees use domain credentials
Go to the Light My Way tab
View the page content, links to documentation, support, extension etc

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 2 - 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
1. Author keys will be you passkey for authoring
Download and expand
Go to data tab and import

Admin activities is normally done by TECHNIA or specially trained customer administrators.

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 3 - 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.
1. Find the version info (the client will automatically update on browser restart as new versions are released to the store)
2. Apply a “site access” pattern so that the client tabs only shows for target platform URLs
  1. To ensure data access make sure that “*://lmw.technia.cloud” is added
  2. Verify that the extension activates for target platforms only (refresh tab)
3. Manually remove the extension

Note that manual client installation is not recommended (easy to make configuration mistakes e.g. site access list)

Exercise 4 - 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 “Light My Way“ extension in your browser extensions list
1. Note the source “Added by your organisation”
2. Note that “runtime_allowed_hosts” is not displayed in the site access list