09/26/2023

pendo-LocalTest

A localhost website created by Alex Newton, heavily modified by @ChariotOfFLAME .
Featuring many Pendo testing and debugging methods, as well as other tangential projects.

Setup

• Create a new App in your personal Pendo Test Subscription, or add these pages to another App.
• Download the Repo into a self-contained folder
• open pendo-snippet.js in your text editor
• replace the string on line 104 with the above App's Pendo API Key Pendo API Key
  • This will be loaded on every page in the directory, and thus is installed on each page, so you only need to change the API key here.
  • for an EU sub, comment out lines 28-104 and uncomment lines 108-134, replacing the string on line 134 with the EU Sub App's API Key

Run

• Ensure you have installed Python 3 on your Pendo Mac (using Pendo Self Service)
• On Mac, navigate to the parent folder above where you placed the files from this repo
• right click on the folder and select "Run Terminal at Folder"
• copy the text from runThisInTerminalFromThisFolder.txt into the new Terminal Window and hit Enter
• navigate to http://localhost:8080/

Alternate Configurations:

• Optional Configurations include:
  • Programmatic Location API - index.html lines 21-39
  • Programmatic API-Activation Guides Launcher - index.html line 10 and lines 59-62 and pendo-guideLauncher.js
  • Pendo Function Shortcuts - index.html line 11 and lines 64-188, and pendo-agent-functions.js
  • Pendo Status Page API Checker - index.html lines 12-20 and lines 283-286, cdn.statuspage.io_se-v2.js, and pendo-status.js
  • Heavily modified and simplified iFrame Town - multiFrame folder
    • credit to @4storia for building the first iFrame Town

Pre-built Pendo Adjustments:

• Change Visitor or Account Information:
  • Change the variables being passed in pendo-snippet.js lines 3-18
  • Switch to hardcoded strings in pendo-snippet.js lines 54-69
• Enable Snippet-based Location API:
  • Comment in pendo-snippet.js lines 92-100