Setting up Reflection Desktop with a User Interface like Extra!'s

Applies to Reflection Desktop

This video shows how you can configure Reflection Desktop with a user interface that is very similar to the Extra! interface.

Audio Transcript:

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If you’re worried about your users adopting to Reflection’s modern Ribbon interface, you can configure Reflection to use an interface that is very similar to Extra!

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If you want to walk through this video for your installation, make sure that you have set up an administrative point for the Reflection Deployment Tools, as shown in the Reflection Deployment Guide and in the Video, “Setting up Your Environment for Deployment.”

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The Classic interface mode is one of several optional interfaces provided by Reflection to address user needs and preferences. Let’s take a look at how to set this option and deploy it to users.

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After we open Reflection, we'll select to open the Reflection Workspace settings. These settings control Reflection's look and feel, its behavior, and other global application preferences. We'll select to configure the user interface.

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Reflection provides a number of alternate user interfaces, - And the Classic mode is similar to Extra!.

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Now close and reopen Reflection to display the Classic mode.
Now let’s set up an MSI file so we can deploy this file to users.

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We’ll open the Installation Customization Tool and select to Create a new Companion Installer.
Under Specify Package Information, we’ll enter the name of the package and organization name you want to display in the Windows Programs and Features Utility.

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Under Specify install locations and choose to install this setting so that it applies to all users of the machine. 
If you prefer, you can choose to install this setting for individual machine users and if you do that, the file will be installed in a different folder on the user workstation.

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Now, under Modify User Settings, we’ll select Reflection Desktop Workspace Settings...
and select Define.

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Select Configure User Interface, just as we did earlier
And then, select the Classic User Interface mode.

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You can see that the Installation Customization tool has set the file location for the MSI

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Now we’ll save this file on our administrative installation point. And after we save this MSI, we can deploy it along with our installation or separately.

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Setting up Reflection Desktop with a User Interface like Extra!'s