groups-banner-demo

Demo which demonstrates the new web customization options of the Glue42 groups

Prerequisites

• Glue42 Desktop 3.15+
• Node.js 14+

Description

The demo consists of two react application which communicate with each other through Shared contexts the State app sets a flag whether an overlay or a banner should be shown for an application which is running and the group-app reacts to those context changes.

How to start

• Run npm install in both the banner-state-app and the group-app
• Run npm start in the group-app - this will start a development server on localhost:3000
• Run npm start in the banner-state-app - this will start a development server on localhost:3001
• To configure Glue42 Desktop to use the group-app you can go to the webGroup.json file which is located in %Glue42 installation folder%\GlueDesktop\config\apps
• In there you should add a url property in the details object with the value "http://localhost:3000" and ensure that the app is not disabled (doesn't have a flag disable:true)
• Then in the apps folder you should copy and paste the state-app.json config file from the banner-state-app
• Start Glue42 Desktop
• The State app should appear in the application toolbar
• Then you can start for example Client List and click on the banner button in the State app a banner in the Client List should appear