OrgPlus 7 - OrgPlus Plug-in Deployment
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Summary:
You can automatically deploy OrgPlus Plug-in to computers throughout your
organisation using the HumanConcepts web site or a private web server.
Procedure:
When publishing charts from OrgPlus for your intranet using the Publish to
OrgPlus Plug-in wizard, you have some variations regarding the different ways in
which OrgPlus Plug-in can be installed on the user computers for browser based
viewing of charts.
The HTM "container" (just a simple HTM file) is something you would create only
once: the first time you publish a chart. Then you could make edits like other
pages on your intranet. The .ovx file, which is the actual chart, is updated
each time you publish and is displayed by the container. Depending on how you
choose to deploy OrgPlus Plug-in, you may or may not want AutoUpdate enabled.
Automatically Installing OrgPlus Plug-in, on Demand
The easiest way to deploy OrgPlus Plug-in is to check the HTM Container option in
the screen shown below which will insert some code into the HTM container to
fetch the OrgPlus Plug-in Plug-in from www.humanconcepts.com and automatically
install it. If you choose this option, the user will be prompted to install
OrgPlus Plug-in (from www.humanconcepts.com) the first time they visit your
intranet chart page. On subsequent visits, the chart will simply be displayed.
If a new or improved version of OrgPlus Plug-in is released, your users will
automatically be offered the option to update to the most recent version. This
mechanism takes advantage of a small version checker (hcinstall5.cab is 15k) to
keep the download small while keeping the user's OrgPlus Plug-in in sync with the
latest available from HumanConcepts. To avoid being prompted on every visit to a
chart page with the HumanConcepts security certificate, the user can select
"always trust content from HumanConcepts".
Sample HTM "container" with AutoUpdate with update specific code shown in
bold:
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>OrgPlus Chart Title</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <OBJECT ID="IDX" CODEBASE="http://intranet.mycompany.com/viewer/Plug-in.cab#Version=6,0,310,0"Alternately, if you are prevented by IS policy from downloading and installing Plug-ins from the web, you can allow users to install OrgPlus Plug-in from a setup file hosted locally on your intranet.
CLASSID="CLSID:C73881A0-E7F5-4ce4-B199-307EB127FE15" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%"> <PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE=" http://intranet.mycompany.com/sample2.ovx"> <EMBED src="http://intranet.mycompany.com/sample2.ovx" Plug-inspage="http://download.humanconcepts.com/downloads/op6/Plug-in/
nsPlug-in6inst.htm" width="100%" height="100%"type="application/x-ovx"> </EMBED> </OBJECT> </BODY> </HTML>
Using the same HTM container file as above, with a line edited to install OrgPlus Plug-in using Plug-in.cab from any server, you can have OrgPlus Plug-in automatically installed from your own intranet. In this example, the Plug-in.cab is on the intranet.mycompany.com server. Replace intranet.mycompany.com with the domain name or IP address of your intranet server. You can also simply use a network path to Plug-in.cab (e.g. " \\servername\viewer\Plug-in.cab").
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>OrgPlus Chart Title</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <OBJECT ID="IDX"CODEBASE="http://intranet.mycompany.com//Plug-in/Imaging User Computers with OrgPlus Plug-in
hcinstall7.cab#Version=6,0,310,0" CLASSID="CLSID:C73881A0-E7F5-4ce4-B199-307EB127FE15" WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%"> <PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="http://intranet.mycompany.com/sample2.ovx"> <EMBED src="http://intranet.mycompany.com/sample2.ovx" width="100%" height="100%"
type="application/x-ovx"> </EMBED> </OBJECT> </BODY> </HTML>
A third way to deploy OrgPlus Plug-in is to image end user machines using the ovsetup.exe OrgPlus Plug-in installer. IS departments will do this either by running scheduled remote maintenance and running ovsetup.exe on client machine silently (see ovsetup.exe command line options), or if the IS department pre-images client machines, the ovsetup.exe install should be included in the pre-imaging process.
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Latest Version of OrgPlus Plug-in.
Although the OrgPlus Plug-in installer is included as part of the OrgPlus 7.0 installer, the latest version of ovsetup.exe can always be found at: http://download.humanconcepts.com/downloads/op7/plugin/hcinstall7.cab (automatic cab Installer)
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