Pre-Configuring Mac For ClaroRead To Use In A Site Environment
If you are an Admin you can create a Configuration Profile containing entries for ClaroRead and other Claro apps Accessibility and Automation and push out to target Macs using the MDM.
Apple’s documentation on configuration profiles is available from their website. Page 65 of this document has information that is relevant to our products in regards to Accessibility and AppleEvents.
The generated mobileconfig file will need to be deployed to the target machines via an MDM.
ClaroRead (and ClaroCapture)
You can view a full example of the ClaroRead and ClaroCapture mobileconfig here.
For ClaroRead, the mobile config file requires 2 keys in the Services dictionary:
Accessibility
AppleEvents
This requires 7 dictionaries one for each of the following:
System Events
System Preferences
Microsoft Word
Dictionary
Pages
Safari
TextEdit
For ClaroCapture (com.clarosoftware.ClaroCapture), the mobile config file requires 2 keys in the Services dictionary:
Accessibility
AppleEvents
This requires 7 dictionaries one for each of the following:
Microsoft Word
Pages
TextEdit
Preview
Chrome
Microsoft Powerpoint
Safari
The other ClaroRead extras (ClaroView, Auto Converter, ScreenRuler, ScreenMarker) require no entries.
Writing Helper
You can view a full example of the Writing Helper mobileconfig here.
For Writing Helper (com.clarosoftware.WritingHelper), the mobile config file requires 1 key in the Services dictionary:
AppleEvents
This requires 1 dictionary for the following:
Microsoft Word com.microsoft.Word
Thanks
Thanks to Amos Deane from arts.ac.uk for sending an example profile for us to work with. This article was based on the original Read&Write article here.