Octory Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. Octory adheres to Semantic Versioning.

2.1.2

Added

• Added the MandatoryFilesMissingQuitText property for mandatory files monitoring.

Fixed

• Fixed the IsMandatory property not working for File monitoring.
• Fixed the SendRequest action that wasn't properly read from configuration file in some cases.

2.1.1

Fixed

• Fixed the Variable key registering in the configuration.
• NextButtonClick trigger was targeting PreviousButtonClick trigger.

2.1.0

Added

Actions and Triggers

• Action: open a slide in another window. See OpenWindow. PRO
• Action: navigate to a specific slide. See NavigateToSlide. PRO
• Action: display a local notification to the user. See DisplayNotification. PRO
• Action: update a variable. See UpdateVariable. PRO
• Trigger: trigger an action set when another app is launched. See Triggers. PRO
• Trigger: trigger an action set programmatically with:
  • octo-notifier
  • ButtonComponent "Trigger" key
  • DisplayNotification actions "Trigger" keys
  See Triggers. PRO

Interface composition

• Sidebar a container on the right. See SideContainer. PRO
• Specify width ratios to arrange containers. See Containers.

Monitoring

• New monitors count placeholders (useful to indicate the remaining monitors to install). See Placeholders.
• New Installer possible value: "Managed" to specify that a monitor installation state will be updated by octo-notifier only. See App Monitor.
• Optionally display a vertical scroller for the AppMonitorComponent. See AppMonitorComponent.
• Mark an AppMonitor as "Not mandatory" to allow the app termination if the monitor is not installed. See application monitoring.
• The icons to indicate the installation state of a monitor have been updated with SF Symbols (require macOS 11+). A spinner will be displayed when the monitor state is "Installing" (available on all supported macOS versions).

Miscellaneous

• Disable the application relaunch at login behavior when the system was turned off or restarted and the app was running. See App termination.
• The command-line tool config has been improved to be more precise in the error messages and to better evaluate the configuration files.
• A new command-line tool octo-notifier is available to send monitors installation updates to Octory or to send custom trigger events.

Changed

• Changed AppMonitoringComponent look.

Fixed

• The "Previous" button was reappearing on the last slide after an incomplete installation alert was displayed although it was specified to hide it.
• The monitors specifying a condition in the Conditions section were not updated when a variable involved in the specified conditions was updated.

2.0.6

Added

• PDF component. See Interface composition.
• Video component. See Interface composition.
• Copy to clipboard action. See Actions. PRO
• Terminate app action. See Actions. PRO

Changed

• The application will check that a configuration file has the correct permissions before using it. See Security.
• The Helper has received a security update and its current version is now 1.1.0. This version is required to work with Octory 2.0.6. Also, the Helper is now a Universal Binary. See Security.
• The application now uses a new internal library to decode a configuration file. The config checker is built on top of it to validate a configuartion file similarly as the logs of th app in /tmp.
• The SaveInputs and Log action have been marked as PRO features to improve coherence. Now all Actions are PRO features.

Fixed

• The device placeholders have been fixed for Silicon Macs.

2.0.5

Added

• 12/16/2020 update: Universal build for ARM and Intel

Fixed

• Big Sur compatibility and graphics
• Slide valid state was not updated on a variable update
• The CURRENT_SLIDE_INDEX variable was not set at 0 before evaluating conditions
• The monitors conditions were not properly updated

2.0.4

Fixed

• The Jamf policy execution now works properly by using sudo
• Action sets were triggered by an unwanted event
• Multi-threads crashes fixed
• The key Window→IsMovable now only affects the window title bar. Thus, the window is no more draggable using its background.

2.0.3

Added

• Shortcut to force the app termination unconditionally. See AppTermination.

Changed

• App termination scripts with ExecuteAsRoot to choose how the run the scripts. See AppTermination.
• AppTermination → QuitShortcutIsEnabled not required anymore with default true value. See AppTermination.
• Scout updated to 1.3.0 to get a dictionary or array count. See API requests (VariableReadingPaths).

Fixed

• Bad thread access when updating Jamf monitors while parsing the Jamf log that caused random crashes.
• Bad thread access when dealing with the variables updates that caused random crashes.
• Window shadow was not set with the "Simple" value for the OnScreen key.

2.0.2

Fixed

• App termination script now uses the Helper
• Checkboxes text now populated
• Monitors text now populated
• Flag to save the configuration passed as argument: --save
• Model (font, color, request) single parent log error improved
• Default config name now also searched in Managed Preferences

2.0.1

Added

• The window title can be populated

Changed

• Octory log is now named username-octory.log

Fixed

• AppMonitor generated variables were not writting their first state
• The device placeholders now work for macOS < 10.15
• DisplayAlert actions were populated

2.0.0

Added

• Display a popover view from a button. See Button component. PRO
• Conditionally execute actions. See Actions. PRO
• Reload the interface by keeping variables values and controls states. See Admin menu
• New application and device placeholders. See Variables
• Possibility to choose the application configuration file with the command line. See Home
• Possibility to choose the application window OnScreen option with the command line. See Window configuration
• Possibility to hide navigation buttons for each slide. See Slides
• Window OnScreen new value MenuBar and bunch of new customizations. See Window configuration
• Possibility to use a parent style (font, color) with a single string when no overrides are needed. See Appearance
• Helper to execute a command with root privileges. See Helper. PRO
• Conditionally insert or remove components and monitors. See Conditions, Components and Monitors. PRO
• Specify an Input component percent width. See Input Components
• File monitoring with generated variables and optionally generate a variable for each app monitor. See Monitoring

Changed

• Reload the interface takes the monitors and navigation view into account. Thus, the monitors states are reset.
• The Justified text alignment value for a font has changed to Justify
• Button component required Style key added. See Button component
• Button component TextColor key has been changed to Color
• Termination sound has been moved to the Monitoring section, with new customizations.
• Window Minimum/Maximum height and width have changed for sizes. See Window configuration
• Some keys previously required are not required anymore and have a default value instead
• The placeholder FULL_USER_NAME has been changed for USER_FULL_NAME
• Checkboxes input variable format has changed from [variable]_[title] to [variable]-[checkbox index]. See Checkbox Input component

Fixed

• Octory now waits for Workspace ONE (Airwatch) or Munki log files, then starts monitoring.
• Input variable now written in Octory’s variables and in the input file, without the need of a validation key
• Possibility to test empty strings with validation regular expression for a Text Input component
• Possibility to tab between Text Input component, unless the interface has been reloaded
• Image view infinite loop at image loading
• AppTermination scripts paths not populated
• The StyleConfigurableTextView and StyleConfigurableTextField would not listen to input variables updates
• It was not possible to quit even if no monitors were configured, or if all were already installed

1.1.0

Fixed

• The Previous button was appearing on sole slides when the “Finish” button was clicked, but the application was not terminated
• The Admin mode was not deactivated when specified so in the configuration
• Menu bar not always active at app launch

Changed

• Regular expression to find a match in the Jamf log changed to add more flexibility

Added

• Monitoring of the file /var/log/install.log to trigger the monitoring installing state for apps which are not downloaded directly into the /Applications folder with the .appdownload extension (like Microsoft’s apps)

1.0.0

Initial release.