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Installation and usage

The script adds two images to the skin cab file and sets these images as away and do-not-disturb state bitmap on every speed dial key. You still need to manually update the skin to show your own state and picture and extend the line keys to show HD and encryption symbols, but the cumbersome task to update every single speed dial key with SwyxIt! skin editor is no longer necessary.

To use the script download the attached ZIP file, extract its contents into a new directory, open a Powershell prompt and cd into that directory. Download the skin file from SwyxServer using SwyxWare File Explorer or SwyxWare Administration. Then call the script like this:

.\update-IppbxSkinFile.ps1 -path myskin.cab -AwayImage status_away.png -DnDImage status_dnd.png

In this example myskin.cab is the skin file to change, status_away.png and status_dnd.png are the image files to use for the new states. If you have more than one skin to update, use Powershell’s pipelining support to change all of them like this.

ls *.cab | % { .\update-IppbxSkinFile.ps1 -path $_ -AwayImage .\status_away.png -DnDImage .\status_dnd.png }

Use SwyxIt! to upload the changed cab file as your own user-specific skin to check if everything works as expected. If you’re satisfied upload the skin into SwyxWare’s global file scope for every user to use.

This script has been tested on one system (mine ) with some standard SwyxWare v7.0 skins.

How does it work?

Skins a Windows cabinet (cab) files containing all images and one or more skn files which are just text files in the legacy Windows INI-file format. update-ippbxskinfile.ps1 extracts the cab file, updates the speed dial key definitions in all skn files and writes the skin files and new images into the cab file.