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-====== Tabulum ======
-{{ :apps:default_screenshot.png?360|A representative screenshot would be useful here.}}
-The spiritual successor to KioskWatch.  Serves as the (**Cr** Edge-based) client for web kiosks and web-based tracking boards.
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-! style="text-align:right;" | __Application name__: || Tabulum
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-! style="text-align:right;" | __Current version__: || 1.5
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-! style="text-align:right;" | __Platform__: || Windows executable
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-! style="text-align:right;" | __Use__: || Client for web kiosks and web-based tracking boards.
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-! style="text-align:right;" | __App owner__: || [[:user:mibowers1|Michael Bowers]]
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-! style="text-align:right;" | __App owner team__: || [[:teams:clmgmt:home|Client Management]]
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-! style="text-align:right;" | __Primary area__: || Kiosks and tracking boards
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-! style="text-align:right;" | __Developer__: || [[:user:mibowers1|Michael Bowers]]
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-! style="text-align:right;" | __Website for this software__: || You're looking at it.
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-! style="text-align:right;" | __Support link for this software__: || Ditto.
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-! style="text-align:right;" | __Path to package__: || [[\\imagecast\msi$\T\Tabulum]]
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-! style="text-align:right;" | __Packager__: || [[:user:mibowers1|Michael Bowers]]
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-==== Information about Tabulum ====
-In the Before Times™ (as I like to call them), we used [[.:kioskwatch|KioskWatch]], which handled web-based kiosks and tracking boards by automating Internet Explorer.  However, since IE has been end-of-lifed we had to have a new solution.
-After experimenting endlessly with controlling Chrome or Edge with the DevTools protocol, automation with Selenium 3 and 4, and interacting with debug configurations of the browser I ended up writing an application that embeds [[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/|Microsoft Edge WebView2]] and controls that as a single full-screen browser that can be kept on-task and even allow for some automation.
-Tabulum was written with [[https://www.lazarus-ide.org|Lazarus 2.2.2]] and compiled with [[https://www.freepascal.org/|Free Pascal 3.2.2]].  The WebView2 components for Lazarus are [[https://www.briskbard.com/index.php?lang=en&pageid=webview|an open source package]] available for Delphi and Lazarus.
-==== Configuration instructions ====
-First, note that Tabulum is compiled for 64-bit Windows //only// and only functions on Windows 10 or newer.
-==== Testing instructions ====
-How to test that Tabulum is working properly.  Any test credentials may be shared here, too.
-==== Installation summary ====
-Installation of the app requires that MS Edge WebView2 components are installed from Microsoft.
-Manual installation is not really necessary; there's a handy package that installs the files.  There is the program itself, two .dll files that are the messages and categories for the Windows Event Log entries, and a configuration file that tells Tabulum what to do.
-==== Previous versions ====
-This is the first public release of Tabulum.