need snap in creation instruction

[dureal99d]

Would anyone mind creating a video or written step by step guide on how to create a snappin for fog from .exe and .msi installers

[Wayne Workman]

If I made a video or article, I’d only be covering FOG 1.3.0 using the new client.

Here is an older tutorial but this might still be relevant to the legacy client and 1.2.0 https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/289/how-to-make-a-simple-snapin-start-to-finish

[dureal99d]

Fog 1.3.0 is out? Wow I didn’t know that. Anyways thanks for the link. And sure l’ll still take that tutorial on rev.1.3.0

[ITSolutions]

@dureal99d 1.3 is not fully released yet. The trunk build is refereed to as 1.3 and is very stable, but still in a beta stage. I would recommend if you are starting off in FOG to start with the trunk if you can.

[Wayne Workman]

@dureal99d said:

Fog 1.3.0 is out?

As of now (February 2016), No.

But it will be soon. We don’t have the man power nor will power to support anything older than the latest stable, and why should we try when FOG is open source and free to all? There is no excuse for not upgrading - and when people ask for help with older versions, I have no problems with telling them to upgrade to the latest stable first before I help (and here lately, we’ve only been recommending FOG Trunk because it’s so close to being 1.3.0).

Also remember everyone here who has a tag by their name - they don’t get paid. We do this for fun, for experience, to give back, whatever the reason is - we could be doing other things. And helping with old versions of FOG because someone doesn’t want to put in the effort to upgrade is not fun to me. So that’s why I just write and document for the future 1.3.0 version at the moment - because I know it’s really close.

[dureal99d]

I see. Well to my knowledge im using the trunk build. I am not sure if if the trunk build auto upgrades to 1.3 but I am using trunk. Is thier a different or various trunk builds?

[dureal99d]

@dureal99d said:

I see. Well to my knowledge im using the trunk build. I am not sure if if the trunk build auto upgrades to 1.3 but I am using trunk. Is thier a different or various trunk builds?

I see I am using version 1.2.0 but it is a trunk build ver. 6177. So my next question is how does one get the 1.3 build?

[Tom Elliott]

@dureal99d trunk will be 1.3.0 when we make trunk the “stable” version. Right now there is no 1.3.0, or to look at it another way, you are running what will become 1.3.0?

[dureal99d]

@Tom-Elliott Fair enough!!!

[Wayne Workman]

I just threw together this example using an MSI, in this case Google Chrome.

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_Snapin_Examples

Hopefully this will get you started.

I’ll do Java tomorrow if I have time, and maybe a few for batch files and powershell files.

[dureal99d]

Thank you I shall watch it. and I appreciate the time you and all of the staff of fog put in helping us better understand and utilize a great product.

[boeleke]

Hi there ,

the “Create New Snapin” choice @Snapin Management – is this ‘option’ not working because beta-version?
I did git pull - i have the newest version of fog trunk.

Greetings,
Tom

[Wayne Workman]

@boeleke Errors, screen shot? How to reproduce? What version of trunk are you on?

[Sebastian Roth]

@boeleke Yes, we need more infos! As well would you please post your question in a new topic!

[boeleke]

@Sebastian-Roth

i will make a new topic Not that special.

[dureal99d]

@boeleke Cool thank you

[Rusty]

Awesome, thanks @Wayne-Workman