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Installing Ghost Publish Add-on

Open a support with the Support to install this add-on. The Ghost Publish Add-on requires the Jive instance configuration and then the add-on installation and configuration. The add-on also must be signed and uses user groups to limit access.

Fastpath

User interface: Your avatar > Add-ons

A user must have at least Manage System permissions to install add-ons.

Attention

This add-on requires connectivity to Jive Cloud Shared Services.

Make sure that the Jive instance is configured, as described in Prerequisites for installing Ghost Publish Add-on, before installing the add-on.

Installing from a package

To install Ghost Publish Add-on from a zipped package and sign it:

  1. In the user interface, click on your avatar in the upper-right corner, and then select Add-ons.

  2. On the Add-ons tab, select All Add-ons on the right, and then click Ctrl+Upload Package (Windows) or CMD+Upload Package (MAC) that the add-on package can be signed.

    The Add-ons page screenshot

  3. Paste the add-on UUID signature code f30965ce-9e71-11ea-bb37-0242ac130002 into the sign package field.

  4. Click Sign.

    This returns a signature.

  5. Open the unzipped add-on folder. Open the definition.json and paste the signature string at the following line:

    "jiveServiceSignature": "<<< replace me >>>"
  6. Save the definition.json file.

  7. Compress all the files contained in this folder and name the archive.

  8. Go back to the Jive Add-ons page.

  9. On the Add-ons tab, select All Add-ons on the right, and then click Upload Package.

  10. On the Upload Package page, choose the newly compressed package file and then click Install Now.

  11. Select if the add-on should be visible to all users:

    • Clicking Install now makes it available for all community users immediately.
    • Clicking Preview makes it available only to you. After you have verified the setup, you will need to make the add-on available to other community users.
  12. To verify that the add-on is installed, go to the Add-ons tab, then select All Add-ons > Installed, and find the add-on in the list.

The Ghost Publish Add-on is installed. Now you need to configure the add-on, as described in Configuring the Ghost Publish Add-on.