Centrally Managed Meeting Cost Extension for Chrome

This article outlines the steps to configure Meeting Costs for Google Calendar™ extension avoiding end user login for the premium features.

We expect you are familiar with deploying extensions for your managed browsers and you have done so as outlined by Meeting Costs for Google Calendar

You should be familiar with your own company's browser management policies and how you manage them across the devices and users.

Centrally managed extension steps:

1) Central deployment of the extension via Google Administrator portal

2) Deploying the extension policy (account identifier and API key)

3) Testing the authentication

1) Centrally managed installation of the extension

You can install the Meeting Costs for Google Calendar extension to managed browsers via admin.google.com. The installation takes place using managed Chrome profiles and policies. Here's the Google's knowledge base article for guidance.

You can install the extension for a set of users, org structure, or whole organization. We recommend the option "Force install" to ensure everyone has it in their browsers. During testing you can choose to use "Allow install" option.

Quick steps:

1) You should navigate to Devices -> Chrome -> Apps and extensions -> Users and Browsers

2) Install the new extension using "Add from Chrome Web Store" and finding "Meeting Cost for Google Calendar". To complete the installation, select Installation Policy "Force Install" or "Allow install" and click SAVE in the top corner of the screen.

2) Deploying the account identifier and API key

You should contact Flowtrace for the extension policy configuration which automatically authenticates your users to Flowtrace servers. The configuration policy is in JSON format and contains unique account identifier with a key to access the centrally managed configuration.

{
    "authentication": {
        "Value": { 
            "account": "uuid-account-identifier",
            "key": "api-key-to-identify-the-extension"
        }
    }
}

3) Testing the authentication

The extension policy is updated to all managed browser in the coming 24 hours. To speed up the testing process you can update the extensions at chrome://extensions. After this you should also refresh your Google Calendar.

If you have logged into the extension using your Google account, we recommend you "Sign out" from your SSO session to ensure the API key is used to centrally authenticate your extension with Flowtrace servers.