Smart Notebook 11.4 - Gallery Files Location

[speckledegg]

Morning All,

 

Was wondering if anyone had found a way of setting the location of gallery files for Smart Notebook 11.4 to a share on the network via regedit?

 

I did find other threads about setting the gallery location, but these date back to 2008-9. So just wanted to see if it was possible to set this as we missed this off when redeploying the software to laptops we recently upgraded to Windows 10.

 

Or is there like an MSI for this that someone wouldn't mind sharing? I don't think there will be one though as it seems to be combined into the main installer process and downloaded separately.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[sted]

i think it can be done via the tools that you get to alter the msi from smartboard or a reg hack but its been a while

[speckledegg]

Did a bit more digging on this and came across a couple of reg entries that seem to be responsible for pointing the gallery location to a server share. See the attached regedit here Smart Notebook - Remote Gallery.zip

 

The location is currently set to a local drive but you would just need to update the file path to reflect your share location and where the gallery XML is stored (i.e. \\server\Smart\Gallery Files v11\Gallery Essentials\imsmanifest.xml).

 

The gallery XML is usually in the folder with all the gallery files you pull from another computer C:\programdata\SMART Technologies\Gallery Essentials (you would copy the whole Gallery Essentials folder to your chosen network share and point the reg file to it).

 

Smart Notebook then uses the XML as a guide to build your redirected gallery from what I can see....

 

Hope this helps someone!

Edited March 2, 2020 by anselmtech

[mavhc]

Yeah, use the configuration tool to make an xml file, which then compiles to an MST file you set along with the msi in the gpo (TLA!!!)

[speckledegg]

Yeah, use the configuration tool to make an xml file, which then compiles to an MST file you set along with the msi in the gpo (TLA!!!)

 

So if you did that with the configuration tool, would you have to install the whole of Smart Notebook again via GPO? or could you use the MST and XML to just modify the Smart Notebook install that's already been completed on a group of machines via GPO?

[mavhc]

In theory it should just do a modify, but in theory Smart software isn't terrible. I've not tested it.

[ass17]

Ours is on the network, works quite well, we also have the team content there too.

 

It is just registry keys that point to the XML file in the gallery folder.

 

If you still need help I can post our reg keys..

[speckledegg]

Ours is on the network, works quite well, we also have the team content there too.

 

It is just registry keys that point to the XML file in the gallery folder.

 

If you still need help I can post our reg keys..

Oooh yes please, if you could share those reg files that would be greatly appreciated!

 

I've pushed a reg on our network for this, but would be interested to see how your ones differ...

Edited March 6, 2020 by anselmtech

[ass17]

Oooh yes please, if you could share those reg files that would be greatly appreciated!

 

I've pushed a reg on our network for this, but would be interested to see how your ones differ...

 

No problem, I’ll post them before 10am.

 

We’re redirect both the gallery and the lesson activity stuff.

Edited March 6, 2020 by ass17

[speckledegg]

No problem, I’ll post them before 10am.

 

We’re redirect both the gallery and the lesson activity stuff.

No worries, that's great thank you! [emoji4]

[ass17]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SMART Technologies\Gallery\TeamContent\fd16a709-8b28-4662-b5bd-63dc86eeb34e.com]

"ImsManifestXml"="\\\\domain.test\\Applications\\General\\Smart\\Lesson Activity Toolkit\\imsmanifest.xml"

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SMART Technologies\Gallery\TeamContent\gallery.smarttech.com]

"ImsManifestXml"="\\\\domain.test\\Applications\\General\\Smart\\SmartBoard Gallery\\imsmanifest.xml"

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\SMART Technologies\Gallery\TeamContent\fd16a709-8b28-4662-b5bd-63dc86eeb34e.com]

"ImsManifestXml"="\\\\domain.test\\Applications\\General\\Smart\\Lesson Activity Toolkit\\imsmanifest.xml"

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\SMART Technologies\Gallery\TeamContent\gallery.smarttech.com]

"ImsManifestXml"="\\\\domain.test\\Applications\\General\\Smart\\SmartBoard Gallery\\imsmanifest.xml"

 

 

The key things here I think are that fact that the keys are specified in the "Wow6432Node" key more so than the normal keys. And also you need to double up the back slashes for paths so, \\ becomes \\\\ and \ becomes \\

Edited March 6, 2020 by ass17

[speckledegg]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SMART Technologies\Gallery\TeamContent\fd16a709-8b28-4662-b5bd-63dc86eeb34e.com]

"ImsManifestXml"="\\\\domain.test\\Applications\\General\\Smart\\Lesson Activity Toolkit\\imsmanifest.xml"

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SMART Technologies\Gallery\TeamContent\gallery.smarttech.com]

"ImsManifestXml"="\\\\domain.test\\Applications\\General\\Smart\\SmartBoard Gallery\\imsmanifest.xml"

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\SMART Technologies\Gallery\TeamContent\fd16a709-8b28-4662-b5bd-63dc86eeb34e.com]

"ImsManifestXml"="\\\\domain.test\\Applications\\General\\Smart\\Lesson Activity Toolkit\\imsmanifest.xml"

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\SMART Technologies\Gallery\TeamContent\gallery.smarttech.com]

"ImsManifestXml"="\\\\domain.test\\Applications\\General\\Smart\\SmartBoard Gallery\\imsmanifest.xml"

 

 

The key things here I think are that fact that the keys are specified in the "Wow6432Node" key more so than the normal keys. And also you need to double up the back slashes for paths so, \\ becomes \\\\ and \ becomes \\

 

Thank you so much for this! There's definitely some extra entries there that I needed - I'll have a play with this and see how I get on