Third-party add-ins

About this article 

This article will explain the process of uploading a third add-in package in the Admin Center and how to manage third party add-ins that can be distributed to end users through Templafy Desktop.

 

Pre-requisites

Templafy Hive Partners and Templafy can upload add-ins and additional add-in versions. Information security team can activate add-in versions on production environments: Third-party package request form - Form by Asana For urgent requests you can reach out to the team using the security@templafy.com email

 

About third party add-ins

The add-in is a container to organize different versions of an add-in. Each add-in contains one or more versions and only one version can be active for each add-in at the same time.

 

Registry Entries

To distribute registry entries to all users, your ZIP file should contain a folder called "RegistryEntries",  and this folder should contain the registry files.

The structure will look like:

ZipFileName.zip
-->RegistryEntries
---->Registryfile.reg

 

Office Macros

To distribute office macros to all Templafy Desktop users, the following folder structure is required

ZipFileName.zip
-->AppData
---->Microsoft
------>Word
-------->STARTUP
---------->macros.dotm, macros1.dotm

 

Office Extensions

To distribute office extension tools such as OmniDocs tools, the following folder structure is required

ZipFileName.zip
-->LocalAppData
---->OfficeExtensions
------>Word

 

Custom Fonts

To distribute custom fonts, the following folder structure is required

ZipFileName.zip
-->LocalAppData
---->Templafy
------>Fonts
-------->font.otf, font.ttf

             

When the admin uploads the zip file, the file is saved in blob storage, then it is asynchronously processed to add the file list to the zip file saved to the blob storage.

Once uploaded and processed, the admin can activate the version to be distributed to end-users.

 

Currently, only Templafy's InfoSec team, who can activate an add-in

 

How to upload third party add-ins?

To create a new add-in, the admin uses the Upload add-in button and then selects a zip file to upload. This will automatically create the first version of the add-in.

1. Go to yourtenantname.templafy.com/admin/add-ins/third-party-add-ins
2. Click Upload add-in 
   
   
   
   
   
3. Choose file to upload 
4. Once its completed the upload, you can click the X to return to the third party add-ins site
5. Click on the uploaded package to manage further details on the uploaded package

Add-ins can be uploaded individually or in one full package

 

How to manage versions? 

1. Click on the ellipsis menu next to the uploaded package or click on the package. Both options highlighted below will let you manage versions: 
   
   
   
   
2. Edit name and add a description 
3. Manage versions consist of the following actions: 
   • Activate
   • Download
   • Re-process
   • Delete
     
     

 

 

Activating an add-in

1. Click on Activate 
2. Once you've clicked 'Activate', you'll be prompted with a confirmation page, similar to the one shown here: 
   
   

 

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