How to install an extension across multiple machines with a unique identifier.

[Fahad Jameel]

I want my extension to have a unique value for each of my clients. Is there a way to pass a value through a config or something on the user's machine (machine name). 

Also, what would be the best approach to have them install this extension (MDM?)? 

[Oliver Dunk]

Hi Fahad,

One option is chrome.storage.managed which allows you to read values set by policy: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/manifest/storage

Could this be an option for what you're looking to do?

Oliver Dunk | DevRel, Chrome Extensions | https://developer.chrome.com/ | London, GB

On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 6:12 PM Fahad Jameel <fa...@priviom.io> wrote:

I want my extension to have a unique value for each of my clients. Is there a way to pass a value through a config or something on the user's machine (machine name). 

Also, what would be the best approach to have them install this extension (MDM?)? 

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[Fahad Jameel]

Is there better documentation on this? I cannot get it to work by following the directions in the link you provided. 

Here is what i did so far:

manifest.js:

storage: {

    managed_schema: "schema.json"

  },

schema.json

{

  "type": "object",

  "tenant": {

    "type": "string",

    "id": "my_company_name"

  }

}

in the code i tried this, but always get back an empty object.

chrome.storage.managed.get(["tenant"], result => {

  console.log("result", result);

});

Am I missing something?

[Oliver Dunk]

Hi Fahad,

That looks good to me as far as setting up the basic schema.

To set a value in storage, you need to configure policy on the machine. Our docs are a bit limited here but this might help: https://www.chromium.org/administrators/configuring-policy-for-extensions/

As an alternative, are you signed in with a Google identity? If so, getting an ID using getProfileUserInfo() may be simpler.

Oliver Dunk | DevRel, Chrome Extensions | https://developer.chrome.com/ | London, GB