Revision as of 15:33, 28 January 2011

How to open options

First of all, you have to define the correct setting for your universe/Galaxytool.

To do this, click on "Tools" -> "Add-ons" in Firefox:

Find your Galaxytool addon and select the options button.

You can also reach the options screen via Firefox context menu: Just click somewhere with the right mouse, and select "Galaxytool Plugin" -> "GTP Options"

Version 2.5.*

Please note: Version 2.5 has not been released yet, so the images differ from the current version!

GTP Settings

In the beginning, you will see an empty profile:

Now, you have to enter the OGame Servername. You will easily get this address when logging in into you OGame account and copying everything from the address bar of you browser, except of the leading "http://" and without all the things behind the domain name:

electra.ogame.org - that is the OGame Servername.

In the next field you enter the path to the galaxyplugin.php. An example could be http://www.yourdomain.de/galaxytool/secret/galaxyplugin.php. You will have to adjust this address to your Galaxytool installation. If you are unsure, ask the admin of your Galaxytool, he will tell you the correct address.

Finally, enter the username and password from your Galaxytool account.

After that, press the "Check" button.
It will check all your settings and a green dot will appear in the button if everything is fine. If an error occurs, you'll get detailed information about what is wrong, and the colour of the dot will become yellow or red. Yellow means that the Galaxytool URL is correct but another problem occured -- for example a possible error with your username or password.
Please note that the Galaxytool URL and username/password are only checked with version 4.7 of the Galaxytool. With v4.6, only the Galaxytool URL is checked and the version of the Galaxytool is received. With v4.5.4 and below, only the Galaxytool URL is checked but nothing else.
A red dot means that the connection to your Galaxytool could not be established.

Finally, it should look like this:

If you would like to add some more Galaxytool accounts, just click on "Add new Tool". It is possible to add an infinite number of Galaxytool accounts. The Firefox Add-On can send information from one universe to more than one Galaxytool.

As you can see, for every Galaxytool account you can specify which information is sent. Please note that the setting "Submit also the contents of player messages" is turned off by default. If you would like to use the message archive in Galaxytool (from v4.7 only), you will have to enable that setting.

If you would like to delete one Galaxytool, just select it in the drop-down menu and click on "Delete".

Please notice that all changed information (added/deleted tools, changed settings) will be saved when you click on "OK". New changes are undone by clicking on the "Cancel" button.

Status Window

As soon, as the Add-On finds something to upload, a status window appears and shows, what has been sent:

Important: The website needs to be loaded completely, otherwise the Add-On won't recognize anything.

General settings

Status Window

Here you can define the view of the status window via CSS styles. For example you could replace left with right, so the window would be displayed on the right side of OGame instead on the left side. You can also set the position of the status for the iframe pages of OGame (e.g. opened player messages). There is an extra setting, because otherwise (if the status window would be positioned on the left side) it would hide information like subject or sender of a message.

Debug Mode

The debug output may contain information, which could help supporters to help you with your problems. To get a debug output, you have to enable the checkbox "Show debug information" in the settings

If you try to upload something after you enabled that option, the status window looks like this:

This is, how it looks like with a recent version of Galaxytool:

This is, how it looks with an old Galaxytool (v4.5.4 or less):

Copy the text into a Pastebin. (Don't copy it directly into the IRC window, you may become disconnected then!) Don't forget to replace the password. After that, give the link to a supporter. Finally, you can disable the Debug mode again.

Requesting own OGame player ID

This setting is used to disable the request to the OGame server which is sent to get the own player ID. This setting should stay turned on, because it prevents the Galaxytool from creating duplicate player entries and incorrectly assigned planets. But if you get logged out once you logged in into Ogame, you could try to disable that function. This usually happens, if the OGame payment-site (from which the own player ID is taken) is unavailable, probably because of other AddOns blocking such requests. Therefore, it is possible to disable that request.

Submitting espionage reports

From v2.5, espionage reports are submitted automatically. Please enable in OGame the option "Show full spy report" so several espionage reports can be sent at the same time. The AddOn will only send the unread espionage reports then.

It could happen, that you get a message like this:

In that case, simply click on the OK-Button, and the techtree will be parsed:

After that, try to submit the espionage reports manually. It should work now.

Submitting fleet movements

The AddOn will submit Phalanx reports automatically, if the option is enabled for that Galaxytool. Of course, you can also submit them via Firefox Context menu, but this should only be necessary, if the previous submission failed due to missing language information.

If you you want to submit your own fleet movements, you have to open the fleet movements overlay (also called Eventlist). After that, you can submit the fleet movements manually via Firefox Context menu. Simply click on the command "Read fleet movements from page". Finally you should see a small notice that the information were sent. Please note, that a complete status window only appears, if debug mode is turned on. The normal status window would hide important fleet information, that's why only a small notice is displayed.

Version 2.1.*

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