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MANAGED SETTINGS quick start

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Out of the box, MANAGED SETTINGS comes with no restrictions set on available settings offered. Without any configuration, the application will allow access to all supported Settings activity intents.

Prepare your policies

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MANAGED SETTINGS will work as a standalone application in a mostly-unrestricted environment, but its true benefit comes with use within a kiosk environment, multi-app kiosk specifically.

If you are using a kiosk-enabled policy today, and have had the settings application available - temporarily or permanently - this must be removed when MANAGED SETTINGS is deployed, otherwise end users will continue to simply leverage the Device Settings application.

Settings access must be blocked

If you're using an AMAPI-based EMM, ensure your kiosk settings stipulate access to Settings is blocked:

"kioskCustomization": {
    "deviceSettings": "SETTINGS_ACCESS_BLOCKED",
}

Failure to do this will lead to unpredictable behaviour within the Device Settings application when it is invoked from MANAGED SETTINGS, in some cases allowing broad access to settings that are expected to be blocked.

For CustomDPC EMMs, please refer to your vendor documentation.

Install the application

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MANAGED SETTINGS is available as a public app on Google Play, which means locating the application for installation within your EMM platform of choice is quick and simple.

You can view it on the Play Store, here:

Get it on Google Play

To install it for enterprise management, log in to your EMM platform, navigate to the area where applications are configured and search the managed Google Play iFrame for the app name BAYTON MANAGED SETTINGS. Alternatively search on the package name: org.bayton.managedsettings.

Configure the application

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  1. Once selected, open the application configuration for MANAGED SETTINGS, and switch to managed configuration setup.
  2. You may now select any Settings intents you wish to provide access to, define a support email address, and optionally a support message.

For details on supported configurations, click here

Note: If you simply import managed config and save, the MANAGED SETTINGS application will remove access to all intents, showing a blank screen.

Formatting support messages

FYI, the support message field supports HTML! You may use the following HTML tags:

  • <P> - HTML paragraph
  • <A> - HTML link
  • <B> - HTML bold
  • <I> - HTML italic

Feel free to customise this message as desired, or simply input a string.

Once configured and ready to deploy, push the application to desired devices.

For licensed organisations, read up on Customising the MANAGED SETTINGS experience.

Further support or feature requests

Are you in need of further help, or would you like to raise a feature request? You can:

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