Subscribers have a default choice which can be reflected in our custom installer. Then there is a toggle in their private server interface which can toggle the menu for a specific group of machines. Our agent checks periodically to see if the menu should remain visible or hide itself. I'm looking for a way to ensure that if hidden, the menu item is truly quit. I believe I have this worked out, however am still interested in hearing what you have to say on the matter. Thank you as always. -Allen Hancock On Dec 2, 2013, at 4:12 AM, Stephane Sudre <dev.iceberg@gmail.com> wrote:

When and how are the subscribers supposed to choose whether the menu item should be visible?

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Allen Hancock - Watchman Monitoring <watchman@watchmanmonitoring.com> wrote:

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We're preparing to release an option SupportMenu item, managed via /Library/LaunchAgent. It'll be enabled for a computer, or disabled, as our Subscriber chooses.

Im trying to figure … what's the less of all evils:

- Distributing the LaunchAgent as Disabled, then having the postflight set the Disabled key to False as required.

or

- omitting it from the BOM and having the postflight copy it into place as required.

It's not the worst abuse of the "package, don't write" guideline, but still, if I can avoid it, I'd like to.

Is there another option, outside of having two versions of the installer?

I suppose I could have the Menu Item look for a key, and launchctl unload itself , but then the app opens for a moment at every login.. seems worst of all these options….

Thanks in advance for any options I'm not seeing.

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