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user432350
user432350

Reputation: 163

Photoshop CEP panel remote hosting?

Hi I am new to Adobe CEP panels, so please forgive me if this is a frequently asked question

I have built my first CEP panel and it is working well, however, in order to make this more useful to others within the company, it would make sense if I were able to host it on one of the company's webservers then anyone in the company could access it. Also, any updates to the html/js/jsx would then only need to be made in one place. I've spent quite some time googling but I've not found any examples.

I would be grateful for any thoughts or suggestions on this.

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Views: 381

Answers (2)

Andrew Swift
Andrew Swift

Reputation: 2237

Yes.

The shipped code has to be signed, but you can dynamically load content using Fetch and append it to the DOM.

I am not sure how Adobe would handle this during the review process, but if you're installing manually it wouldn't be a problem.

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Mr.Online
Mr.Online

Reputation: 326

Technically NO!!!!

Well as you've mentioned that you've already made your first CEP panel and it's also working fine, I can assume you've gone through the method of loading test panels via PlayerDebugMode 1.

So here is the catch. Photoshop only recognises 2 type of extensions called Signed and Unsigned. So when you create a new panel in your local appdata/library - CEP - extensions folder, You creates a unsigned panel and photoshop considers that as test/development panel. When you finish your panel and then make it distributable by either making installable package like .exe or .dmg or .zxp, It gets signed and photoshop considers them as signed plugins and will install it automatically on their legit path.

if I were able to host it on one of the company's webservers then anyone in the company could access it.

The only way I could manage was sharing latest .zxp to my work server where my other designer mates copied and installed them into their system. That's what you can do if you really want to share but you can't assign some global path to extensions because photoshop won't allow you to do it. Regards!

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