Configuration

On first launch the application will display the settings page and ask for the application server. Basically it should be the IP address of your server If you don’t know it, you need to ask your system administrator or refer to Protocol and Application Server paragraph.

About

By clicking the ? menu you will open a popup that show you technical information about the application that can be used to report bugs.

Settings

Settings page is either accessible from top menu or by clicking directly on the wrench icon in topmost right bar.

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User Interface

Choose if you want to use the Desktop Assistant to access the UC Assistant application or the CC Agent application.

Application Options

  • Launch at startup if enabled, the app starts automatically when you log in to your machine.

  • Close in tray if enabled, the app stays running in the notification area after app window is closed.

Global keyboard shortcut and Select2Call

This field allow you to define one shortcut in application to handle all basic actions that can be done for managing calls. With one combination keypress you should be able to:

  • Call the phone number contained in your clipboard (a.k.a Select2Call)

  • Answer a call if phone is ringing

  • Hangup if you are already on call

Note

To be able to call someone, you must beforehand have copied in your clipboard a phone number from any source (web page, e-mail, text document…)
  • Linux: select phone number then trigger shortcut

  • Windows: select phone number, type Ctrl+C then trigger shortcut

Default Select2Call shortcut is Ctrl+Space for Windows and Linux, you can either change it or disable it by leaving the field blank.

Warning

You must be logged in for using global shortcut and automatic dialing to work.

Protocol and Application Server

In these two fields you need to specify the protocol and address to reach the application. The table below list the possible value:

Connection URL

Protocol

Secure (recommended)

Non Secure (should not be used)

Application server

XiVOCC_IP

XiVOCC_IP:8070

Note that XiVOCC_IP or XiVOCC_IP:8070 can be replaced by a FQDN if your administrator has set one and must not be prefixed by a protocol (e.g. https)

Handling callto: and tel: URLs

The Desktop Application can handle telephone number links that appear in web pages. The Desktop Application will automatically dial the number when you click on a link.

It is supported on both Windows and Linux Debian based distributions (with a desktop environment compatible with Freedesktop).

Config file

You can specify your Desktop Assistant parameters by providing a xivoconfig.ini file or by editing the one that gets created automatically on first launch.

Note

For Windows, this file must be located in user’s %APPDATA%/xivo-desktop-assistant/application/config.

For Linux, this file must be located in user’s $HOME/.config/xivo-desktop-assistant/application/config.

Below is an example of xivoconfig.ini file keys in use:

APP_PROTOCOL=HTTPS

APP_DOMAIN=xivo.mycorp.com

APP_INTERFACE=UCASSISTANT

APP_STARTUP=false

APP_CLOSE=true

[ALT_SERVERS]
My favorite server = server-favorite.com
Another server = some-other.server.com
My localhost server = 127.0.0.1:8070
APP_PROTOCOL
Define the use of HTTPS or HTTP connection.
Values: HTTP or HTTPS (default to HTTPS)
APP_DOMAIN
The server used by the Desktop Assistant.
Either an URL (e.g. xivo.mycorp.com) or an IP:PORT (e.g. 192.168.0.1:8070)
APP_INTERFACE
Which application to open between UC Assistant or CC Agent.
Values: UCASSISTANT or CCAGENT
APP_STARTUP (optional)
Enable open at startup of OS.
Values: true or false
APP_CLOSE (optional)
Enable minimization in the taskbar when closing the application.
Values: true or false
[ALT_SERVERS] (optional)
Override APP_DOMAIN to enable the use of a preset server list dropdown instead of a text input in the settings menu.
One pair of name-address per line.
Values: SERVER NAME = SERVER ADDRESS

Update

On Windows, the application will check at startup for a new version of the application and offer to upgrade if one is available.

Note

The update will always use the protocol selected in the application settings.

Important

To have automatic update working on secured protocol, you need a valid SSL certificate (see Install trusted certificate for nginx).

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On Debian, the update relies on the package manager behavior. However you can check for any update by issuing the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
apt-cache policy xivo-desktop-assistant

Startup options

The Desktop Application can be started with following options:

  • --ignore-certificate-errors to disable certificate verification, this option is meant only for test purposes. You can use it with self-signed certificates.

  • -d to enable debug menu items

  • -t with an authentication token as parameter (see Custom user data directory)

Note

On Windows both options must be set to the shortcut xivo-desktop-assistant.exe pointing to application located in C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\xivo\xivo-desktop-assistant.exe so that Target of shortcut looks like for example to: C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\xivo\xivo-desktop-assistant.exe --ignore-certificate-errors -d

Custom user data directory

It is possible to set an environment variable named CUSTOM_USER_DATA where will be stored application configuration. This is usefull if you want for example two shortcuts with two distincts configuration (one for UC Assistant and one for CC Agent) on the same desktop application installed.

On Windows here an example of two shortcuts that set the environment variable (uc or cc) and launch the application. Following lines must be updated with your Windows user name and correct XiVO version and must be set in Target field of the shortcut).

UC assistant:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /V /C "SET CUSTOM_USER_DATA=C:/Users/IEUser/AppData/Local/xivo-desktop-assistant/uc&& START /D ^"C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\xivo-desktop-assistant\app-2018.7.0^" xivo-desktop-assistant.exe"

CC ccagent:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /V /C "SET CUSTOM_USER_DATA=C:/Users/IEUser/AppData/Local/xivo-desktop-assistant/cc&& START /D ^"C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\xivo-desktop-assistant\app-2018.7.0^" xivo-desktop-assistant.exe"

Note

You can set Run mode to Minimized in shortcut General tab to avoid cmd.exe blinking at startup.

Chrome integration

If you don’t want to have a Chrome popup like this one when you click each time on a tel: link on Windows to make a call through your desktop application

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You can edit your registry base to modify this Chrome key to avoid this display each time you want to call someone from a webpage

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome]
"ClickToCallEnabled"=dword:00000000

Known limitations

  • Click on links using protocol tel: on Windows may not work if any version of Skype / Lync is installed on the PC.

Troubleshoot Application

Logging

Logs of application are available in order to debug a crash at startup or during usage of the application. They do not contain Javascript console logs, but only the interactions with operating system, like global shortcut key or callto and tel protocol.

Note

On Windows, logs are located in user’s %APPDATA%/xivo-desktop-assistant/application/logs.

On Linux, logs are located in user’s $HOME/.config/xivo-desktop-assistant/application/logs.

Desktop Application Developper Tools

If needed, you can use the developper console to diagnose a problem “live”. To access the console, right click on the xivo cloud on the top left corner of your application

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Then, in the ‘debug’ menu, you can either open the devtool, or the webview’s devtool

The normal devtool is the one for the electron application. In this one, you will moslty find errors about shortcut keys, callto and tel protocol, network, and everything system-related.

The webview devtool is the one for what’s opened inside the desktop application, so the ccagent or the ucassistant. this devtool is the same one that you get when you open the devtool from the web application in Chrome. You will mostly find network errors or the errors that are specific to the ucassistant and ccagent features.

The main reason to open devtools is to display the console, but you have another functionality used by the desktop application that you might need to debug : the localstorage. It’s located in the application tab of the electron devtool. To check the variables set there, you need to click localstorage on the left, and click file://.

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The variables that are set in there are the one coming from the xivoconfig.ini (except for the shortcut) and could be the cause of a wrong configuration.

Desktop Application Useful shortcuts

Ctrl + Shift + D toggle the docking of the devtool.

Ctrl + Shift + R refresh the page and clear the cache at the same time.

Ctrl + L clear the console.

Ctrl + Q kill the application.

Certificate

If you don’t succeed to reach login page of desired application (i.e. just give you the possibility to retry or to change parameters) and if you observe some errors about certificate in debug mode, you should

  • Check that you installed correctly the certificate under /etc/docker/nginx/ssl (Signed SSL/TLS certificate for WebRTC).

  • Take care if your move a *.cer to *.crt. You must concatenate a key file to your *.cer (cat certifcate.cer certificate.key > certificate.crt). Just rename it will not work

  • Check that XUC_HOST in /etc/docker/compose/custom.env is also configured with the same FQDN as in the certificate, not the IP address.