Cegeka USD Helper (Chrome Extension)
!! WILL BE DECOMMED SEP 2023 !!
I've kept the USD helper online for over a year after I left Cegeka.
After contacting Cegeka, they decided they don't want to support this
extension. So, unfortunatly, It will be removed from the Chrome Web Store soon.
Update: the USD helper has been removed from the Chrome Web store on september 7th 2023.
If you are interested in it and have a Cegeka mail address, feel free to contact me.
This Chrome Extension helps to make the usage of USD easier by:
- Easy search for a hostname, via a muti-purpose search box
- Easy search for a CI number, via a muti-purpose search box
- Easy search for a IP number, via a muti-purpose search box
- Easy search for a change order number, via a muti-purpose search box
- Easy search for a ticket number, via a muti-purpose search box
- Showing a MRU (most recently used) list of Changes/Tickets/Configuration Items viewed
- From the MRU list, allowing to copy reference to Change/Ticket or Configuration Item to paste in communication to others
- From the ticket / change screen, allowing the same copy directly
Installation
Download and installation of development version (expert only)
The most recent zip can be downloaded from:
http://digitalica.nl/cuh.zip
(note: first delete or rename older downloads, so that it gets the same name)
To install in Chrome:
- unpack (in a "cuh" folder)
- Open Chrome
- Click on menu (three dots), more tools, extensions
- Turn on "developer mode" at the top right
- There is now a button "load unpacked", click, select cuh folder, and click "select folder"
- The extension is now in the list. (If there is an update in the same folder, you can refresh by clicking on the refresh symbol.)
- Switch off developer mode (otherwise it will give warnings)
To install in new (Chromium based) Edge (Microsoft,
not focus in development, but looks good):
- unpack (in a "cuh" folder)
- Open Edge
- Click on menu (three dots), extensions
- Turn on "developer mode" at the bottom left
- There is now a button "load unpacked", click, select cuh folder, and click "select folder"
- The extension is now in the list. (If there is an update in the same folder, you can refresh by clicking on the refresh symbol.)
- Switch off developer mode
To install in old (2019 or before) Edge (Microsoft,
NOT WORKING YET, NEEDS TESTING):
- unpack (in a "cuh" folder)
- Open Edge
- Browse to about:flags and enable the checkbox for 'Enable extension developer features'
- Restart Edge for the change to take effect
- Click on menu (three dots), extensions and then 'load extension' (button only visible if developer features are enabled)
Input / suggestions / information
Development by Robbert Wethmar (robbert.wethmar@cegeka.com / robbert@digitalica.nl). Source is (for now) in a (private) github repo.
I'm open to any suggestions or help of course. For UX, for functionality, and to get it in use in Cegeka.
Changelist
Version 2.2, aug 24th 2023
Version 2.1, april 23th 2022
- Add support for 'SI' numbered configuration items
Version 2.0, march 21th 2022
- Add logic to existing USD search box to show invalid or valid inputs (by using bgcolor)
Version 1.9, december 2th 2021
- Move manifest version to 3 (Google will stop support for 2 in 2022)
- Allow searching for ci123456 (lowercase or even mixed case 'CI')
- Allow searching for rfc123456 (allow rfc prefix, case insensitive of course)
Version 1.07, august 12th 2021
- Allow adding tenant on copy by using shift-click
Version 1.06, august 11th 2021
- Make logo transparant (works better in Chrome dark theme, for Adrian ;-) )
Version 1.05, august 8th 2021
- Improve summary for CI's (especially certificate CI's)
Version 1.04, july 28th 2021
- Fix handling of special chars in mail subject
Version 1.03, may 15th 2021
- Improve copy to ignore styling (but keep the link)
Version 1.02, sep 2th 2020
- Set focus in popup to search box right away
Version 1.01, aug 27th 2020
Version 1.00, july 23th 2020
- Add popup on copy to clipboard buttons
Version 0.99, july 20th 2020
- no functional changes, just cosmetic ones for store
Version 0.98, july 15th 2020
- for mail link, change to cc
Version 0.97, july 14th 2020
- Start publishing in Chrome store
- make warning screen size larger, so it shows completely without list (29448ad)
- accept HI (not only CI) numbers in search (4ca6ea2)
Version 0.96, july 6th 2020
- Add mail to USD link
- move links to items to the item number (no more Go button, 2ccb9ba)
- Make icon active all the time (5ed0519)
- Some preparations for store listing
Version 0.94, june 23th 2020
- For changes, show the '2. Logs' tab by default (e456796)
- Fix recognizing child of XXXX indicents (7f8f4a2)
Version 0.93, june 22th 2020
- Fix recognizing parent problems (3fe4f50b9ce9d3eb94c8a0de6edc71e64a5c88b3)
Version 0.92, june 22th 2020
- Add copy button in item page (Change, Ticket, CI) (2cec8a7f7e4bee1374bacebfb2a5cc9b29e1446b)
Version 0.9, june 21th 2020
- Add friendly intro text
- Add warning if connection to USD is not there
- Add option to clear the MRU list
Version 0.74, june 20th 2020
- Information page added
- Support for IP numbers added
Version 0.49, june 19th 2020
- Add (direct!) link to ticket in copied text
Version 0.42, june 18th 2020
- Fix tracking of '**' (out of SLA) tickets
- Fix tracking of parent change orders
- Fix tracking of child change orders
Version 0.41, june 18th 2020
- Added unit tests
- Many other fixes
early prototype stages...
