Liquit Setup Store

This connector type allows you to retrieve managed and unmanaged packages from the Liquit Setup Store Server and is a powerful solution for Release and Patch Management.

For more information about the Overview, Entitlements, Synchronization Profile, Releases and Managed packages screens, see Connectors.

Overview screen - Resources

In the menu of the Overview screen, if you select Resources, you will see a list of all the applications available in the Liquit Setup Store Server with which you can create new managed packages in your own Liquit Workspace environment.
If you need an application added to the Liquit Setup Store, you can request the product by selecting the Request product button in the grid’s toolbar. Alternatively, if you use the search box and it yields no results the following message will be shown in the grid, containing the request button:

Request product dialog box

After you click Request product button in the grid’s toolbar., the following dialog box prompts you for information about the application you would like to see added to the Liquit Setup Store.

1. First you need to select one of the two options.

2. In the next window, fill in the following information:
   Name - Insert your full name.
   Email - Insert your email address where Liquit support can reach you for more information if needed.

3. In the next window, you have to either provide the URL to the installation file or upload it, depending on which option you chose at the beginning of the process.

Product name - Insert the name of the application you want added to the Liquit Setup Store.
Version - Insert the current version of the app.
Download link - Insert the link to the webpage that contains a download link for the setup.
Information link - Insert the link to a webpage with more information about the application.
Installation file - You can supply your version of the setup; this can be useful when no download link is available.
Comments - Add any additional information you can provide on the applications.

4. In the next window, if Liquit Workspace detects that some relevant products already exist in the Liquit Setup Store, it will display them.

• If you select one of the sugested products, a new package will be created, after you click Finish in the next window, Summary.

• If you select the The product I am looking for is not available in the Liquit Setup Store checkbox, a new request will be created after you click Finish in the next window, Summary.

Settings screen

The settings screen allows you to select which kind of applications should be retrieved from the Liquit Setup Store:

Type of applications - The following types are available:

• Installers (MSI, MSIX, PKG etc.)
• Portable applications
• Shortcuts (SaaS, native applications etc.)

Directory for portable applications ($(PackageID) is required) - The directory of the local devices where the applications are installed.

Include install filters - Include installation detection filters on the Install action set.
Include uninstall actions - If enabled, uninstall actions are automatically included in the managed packages created through the Liquit Setup Store connector.
Include shortcuts - Include shortcut information
Shortcut types - Type of shortcuts you want to include within the packages. The following categories are available:

• Launch - Starts an application.
• Help - A shortcut to the online or on-premise help manual.
• Documentation - A URL of a website containing information relating to installation, usage, release notes or maintenance.
• License - A URL of a website where the user can buy a license or a shortcut that launches a local license agreement.
• Configure - Launches a configuration wizard, for example for server applications.

Platforms - Define which platform you want to target:

• Windows (x86) - 86-bit Windows applications will be fetched from the Liquit Setup Store.
• Windows (x64) - 64-bit Windows applications will be fetched from the Liquit Setup Store.
• macOS (x64) - 64-bit macOS applications will be fetched from the Liquit Setup Store.
• macOS (ARM64) - ARM64 macOS applications will be fetched from the Liquit Setup Store.

Languages - Define which localizations of the MSI you want to fetch.

Temporary directory used for installation and uninstallation actions - Insert a custom variable to override the ${PackageTempDir} variable that is always used for storing the download and installation files of applications.

Temporary directory used for logging installation and uninstallation actions - Insert a custom variable to override the ${PackageTempDir} variable that is always used for storing the installation logs.

How to create a package from the Liquit Setup Store

1. In the Resources pane, select a package and then click Create package in the table toolbar or double-click on a resource.
2. In the Create package dialog box that opens, in Overview:

• Enter a name for your new package or keep the default name.
• Select whether or not you want the new package to be managed or not. For more details, see Connectors.
• Select the stage to which you want to publish the new package. For more details, see Packages.
• Select Update existing packages if you want to overwrite the existing package. If a package already exists and this option is not selected, it will trigger an error as it cannot create a duplicate.
• Select Ignore missing dependencies if you do not want to create managed packages for connected dependencies.

3. In Setup details, you can access links to the release notes and product description on the developer's official website, links to Liquit knowledge base articles, VirusTotal and CVE reports in case any vulnerabilities and exposures exist for this resource. Also, in the Superseded by products table, you can view the product versions within Liquit Setup Store that supersede the currently selected version. Note that this info is displayed only in the Create package dialog box, of a new package created from the Liquit Setup Store connector.
4. In Customize, you can access the customization wizard that helps you browse through additional settings offered by the developer to choose the ones that suit your needs.
5. In Entitlements, add the identity (contexts, device collections, devices, groups, users and user collections) to which you wish to publish the newly created package.
6. In Summary, leave the Modify package after creation selected if you want to open the newly created package.

Further reading

How to create a managed package (Video)
How to receive e-mail notifications for new updates and automatically update your managed packages (Blog)