Onboarding wizard changes deprecated

With 7.10.5 we introduced a complete new "Connect your device wizard" which makes it a lot easier for end users to connect their native clients and mobile devices to the various native protocols supported by App Suite like CardDAV, CalDAV and IMAP.

The new wizard is enabled by default. You may choose to use the old client onboarding wizard for compatibility reasons, but we strongly encourage you to switch to the new one, to ensure easy configuration for your end users. The old wizard will be deprecated with App Suite 8.0.

To enable the old wizard, use the following setting:

io.ox/core//onboardingWizard=false

Configuration and changes

The old onboarding configuration via middleware properties is mostly obsolete now. Instead most of the configuration is handled by ui settings. Enabling and disabling of certain setup scenarios is now regulated by capabilities. The mentioned settings and capabilities are described in detail here:

Onboarding settings

Additionally the following onboarding scenarios were removed and are no longer supported in favour of new onboarding methods like QR code support:

  • sending configuration via SMS/ E-mail
  • eM Client

Nevertheless the following properties from the old middleware configuration are still in use and are mandatory for manual configuration scenarios with the new wizard:

  • com.openexchange.client.onboarding.caldav.url
  • com.openexchange.client.onboarding.carddav.url
  • client-onboarding-mail.properties
  • com.openexchange.client.onboarding.eas.url

For more information please refer to this article, where the mentioned middleware properties are described in detail.

Upsell

For now the new wizard does not support the configuration of upsell scenarios. Support for upsell is planned to be added in a future update.