yoUPCms

Install on Windows (Chrome)

Chrome has no signed policy profile for Windows, so load the build by hand. It does not update itself — the updater below does.

1. Unzip the download somewhere stable — it extracts to a folder named yoUPC-companion. Keep that folder; the extension loads from it.
2. Open chrome://extensions.
3. Toggle Developer mode on (top-right).
4. Click Load unpacked and pick the unzipped folder.
5. Pin the puzzle-piece icon. Open any CMS case page — the popup should detect it.

Keep the folder, and never remove the entry. Your cases live in the browser, under this extension's own id, and Chrome deletes them when the entry goes. To move to a new version, replace the folder's contents and press the entry's reload arrow — the updater below does exactly that. Before you remove an entry on purpose, export your cases — Dashboard → Export → Download .sqlite — and load that file in the new install's Export tab.

Updating a hand-loaded Windows install

One script replaces the folder's contents with the published build. It reads the published version, downloads that build, checks it against the published checksum, and leaves Chrome's entry in place, so the cases the extension has stored survive. The viewer's own banner says when a new version is published and offers the same download.

1. Chrome calls a .cmd a file that can harm your computer. Choose Keep.
2. Move yoUPC-companion-update.cmd into the unzipped extension folder, beside its manifest.json. chrome://extensions prints that path under Loaded from. The file stays there, so every later update is the next step alone.
3. Double-click it and read what it prints. It refuses any folder that does not hold this extension, and it changes nothing until the download matches the published checksum.
4. Open chrome://extensions and press this extension's reload arrow.

It uses curl.exe, certutil.exe and tar.exe, which all ship with Windows 10 and 11, and it is plain batch, so no PowerShell execution policy applies to it. If it stops because a file is in use, switch the extension off in chrome://extensions, run it again, and switch it back on.

Install on a Mac (Chrome)

Three steps, and Chrome keeps the extension up to date on its own afterwards.

1. Double-click the downloaded upc-companion-chrome.mobileconfig.
2. Open System Settings → General → Device Management, select "yoUPCms extension and paliad companion for Google Chrome", click Install and enter your Mac password.
3. Quit Chrome fully (⌘Q) and start it again. Within a minute chrome://extensions shows yoUPCms extension as installed by policy.

One profile installs every UPC companion extension, so it also installs the paliad companion. Both update themselves from their own site. You can disable either one in chrome://extensions.

Install on Linux (Chrome)

Chrome has no signed policy profile for Linux either, so load the build by hand, the same way as on Windows. There is no updater script for Linux yet — repeat these steps for a new version.

1. Unzip the download somewhere stable — it extracts to a folder named yoUPC-companion. Keep that folder; the extension loads from it.
2. Open chrome://extensions.
3. Toggle Developer mode on (top-right).
4. Click Load unpacked and pick the unzipped folder.
5. Pin the puzzle-piece icon. Open any CMS case page — the popup should detect it.

Keep the folder, and never remove the entry. Your cases live in the browser, under this extension's own id, and Chrome deletes them when the entry goes. Before you remove an entry on purpose, export your cases — Dashboard → Export → Download .sqlite — and load that file in the new install's Export tab.