Edit Self Service Override to feature app on Front Page of Self Service App

[leoos]

Hi,

Thats a long winded title.

The attached pic explains what I want to do better.

I want to add a line to a Self Service override I have created for Autopkgr. I would like the "Feature the policy on the main page" option ticked.

I tried editing the CATEGORY and POLICY_CATEGORY keys in the override.xml file without success. Is it possible to enable this from the override.xml?

Is this the correct place to ask this type of question?

Regards

Leo

[homebysix]

Hi @leoos,

This might be a better issue for Auto Update Magic or JSSImporter, but no worries, I can answer it here.

The way I'd do this is two-fold. The first part involves overriding the Flash Player jss recipe and naming it Adobe Flash Player-selfservicefeatured.recipe. Make whatever modifications you'd like to make, and also change the POLICY_TEMPLATE key from PolicyTemplate.xml to PolicyTemplate-selfservicefeatured.xml. Store it in ~/Library/AutoPkg/RecipeOverrides. The end result might look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Identifier</key>
    <string>com.example.jss.AdobeFlashPlayer-selfservicefeatured</string>
    <key>Input</key>
    <dict>
        <!-- Your other customizations here. -->
        <key>POLICY_TEMPLATE</key>
        <string>PolicyTemplate-selfservicefeatured.xml</string>
    </dict>
    <key>ParentRecipe</key>
    <string>com.github.jss-recipes.jss.AdobeFlashPlayer</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Next, copy the default PolicyTemplate.xml file from ~/Library/AutoPkg/RecipeRepos/com.github.autopkg.jss-recipes/PolicyTemplate.xml into ~/Library/AutoPkg/RecipeOverrides, and change its name to PolicyTemplate-selfservicefeatured.xml to match the recipe override you created above. In that file, add a single line to the self_service section: <feature_on_main_page>true</feature_on_main_page>

Like so:

<policy>
    <general>
        <name>Install Latest %PROD_NAME%</name>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
        <frequency>Ongoing</frequency>
        <category>
            <name>%POLICY_CATEGORY%</name>
        </category>
    </general>
    <scope>
        <!--Scope added by JSSImporter-->
    </scope>
    <package_configuration>
        <!--Package added by JSSImporter-->
    </package_configuration>
    <scripts>
        <!--Scripts added by JSSImporter-->
    </scripts>
    <self_service>
        <use_for_self_service>true</use_for_self_service>
        <install_button_text>Install %VERSION%</install_button_text>
        <self_service_description>%SELF_SERVICE_DESCRIPTION%</self_service_description>
        <feature_on_main_page>true</feature_on_main_page>
    </self_service>
    <maintenance>
        <recon>true</recon>
    </maintenance>
</policy>

That should do it, I think.

Any time you want to make these sorts of customizations to the policy template xml, the Casper API is worth visiting. That's how I put the above together.