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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 ====
-Tabulum is pretty straightforward.  To test that Tabulum is working properly, configure it to load your favorite internal site and make sure it's an allowed site as per the configuration.  If it loads when you start Tabulum, everything must be good!
-==== 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.
-^ Tabulum.exe  | The application itself.  |
-^ WebView2Loader.dll  | The wrapper that loads the WebView2 components and initializes the objects.  |
-^ EventMessages.dll  | The Windows Event Log messages content.  |
-^ EventCategories.dll  | The Windows Event Log categories.  |
-^ Tabulum.ini  | The configuration file, described above.  |
-==== Previous versions ====
-This is the first public release of Tabulum.