• Installation without Dialog

    By SYNTEGRA Development 1 decade ago

    Hi there!

    Is it possible to install the Exension Library without the Dialog, where you must decide to install the plugin or not?

    We must force our users to install this plugin, but with the Dialog, we cannot ensure this!

    Thanks Mario

    • ExtLib plugins are not signed

      By Andrejus Chaliapinas 1 decade ago

      Hi Mario,
      You would be able to do such silent ExtLib plugins install if they would be signed and that certificate used for such signing would be inside your Trusted certificates list (usually inside names.nsf). But because here we have an OpenNTF distribution and its open for everybody to extend further - there is no such signing in place from IBM side.

      One of possible options for you would be to unpack ExtLib update site archive into filesystem, sign all included jars with your company certificate by using JDK jarsigner utility and point users to ExtLib site.xml location where all jars under features/plugins directories would be signed then by your company. I think it's not that hard to automate via few lines inside some script file.

      • I mean this dialog...

        By SYNTEGRA Development 1 decade ago

        Thanks for your answer!

        Does this help to disable this dialog? (please see attachment)

        Thanks Mario!

        • Plugins need to be signed

          By Andrejus Chaliapinas 1 decade ago

          As you could see from your dialog provided - it says that plugin is not signed. And that is the reason you get that dialog.

          Even using client provisioning feature and widget catalog deployment approach - for silent (that dialog will not appear then) plugins installation on users machines you need to have those plugins signed.

          The only other way would be direct copy of required plugins/features into \data\workspace\applications\eclipse area. But doing that way lacks proper features/plugins update functionality in case new version of them is released, because then you need to delete old ones and copy over new ones. This is not recommended.

          That dialog in regards to unsigned plugins is enforced by Notes security and thus you need to comply with such security schema.

          • Example available?

            By SYNTEGRA Development 1 decade ago

            Thanks for the answer!

            That's what we need! Is there an example out there, how to do this?

            Thanks Mario!

    • You can use a widget

      By Philippe Riand 1 decade ago

      I bet you're talking about the client provisioning. This can be enforced by using a widget:

      http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.domino.admin85.doc/H_CLIENT_MGMNT_OVER.html

      • I mean this dialog...

        By SYNTEGRA Development 1 decade ago

        Thanks for your answer!

        We already know the way of client provisioning. But for example, if you install the ExtLib or Snippets plugin from openntf.org, always a dialog pops up, please see the attachment, which dialog i mean.

        We want to install the plugins silent. But with this dialog the users have the chance to NOT install the plugin.

        Thanks Mario!