IntellecAG / setDefaultApps

Set your macOS default apps using a Configuration Profile

setDefaultApps

SetDefaultApps allows you to set default applications for macOS by a configuration profile. Only configurations via MDM are allowed. Local plist files will be ignored.

To set the default Apps run: /Library/Application\ Support/Intellec/com.intellec.setDefaultApps/DefaultApps

Make sure to have set a configuration profile before, otherwise you get a Only settings set by MDM are allowed.

Triggers

Multiple triggers can be applied to a handler modification entry. This allows you to group multiple handler modifications together and run them together by specifying the triggername as an argument when running the command.

/Library/Application\ Support/Intellec/com.intellec.setDefaultApps/DefaultApps trigger1 If no trigger is specified, the default trigger named "default" is ueed.

At least one trigger has to be defined as part of the handler modification entry. If not, it'll never be applied.

Configuration Profile

setDefaultApps listens to the com.intellec.defaultapps settings domain. It has to have am array called force containing dictionaries with the folowwing keys:

Key	Type	Value
Handler	String	Handler to modify
Typ	String	Typ of the handler ( content or url )
AppID	String	the BundleID ot the Application responsible for the handler
Comment	String	A comment for the entry
Trigger	String	A list of triggers seperated by a comma.

There is no limitations to the number of dictionaries.

For example to set the default browser the config looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>force</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
		  <key>Comment</key>
		  <string>Default browser settings</string>
		  <key>Trigger</key>
		  <string>default, browser, trigger2</string>
		  <key>AppID</key>
		  <string>com.google.Chrome</string>
		  <key>Handler</key>
		  <string>public.xhtml</string>
		  <key>Typ</key>
		  <string>content</string>
		</dict>
		<dict>
		  <key>Comment</key>
		  <string>Default browser settings</string>
		  <key>Trigger</key>
		  <string>default, browser, trigger2</string>
		  <key>AppID</key>
		  <string>com.google.chrome</string>
		  <key>Handler</key>
		  <string>https</string>
		  <key>Typ</key>
		  <string>url</string>
		</dict>
		<dict>
		  <key>Comment</key>
		  <string>Default browser settings</string>
		  <key>Trigger</key>
		  <string>default, browser, trigger2</string>
		  <key>AppID</key>
		  <string>com.google.chrome</string>
		  <key>Handler</key>
		  <string>http</string>
		  <key>Typ</key>
		  <string>url</string>
		</dict>
		<dict>
		  <key>Comment</key>
		  <string>Default browser settings</string>
		  <key>Trigger</key>
		  <string>default, browser, trigger2</string>
		  <key>AppID</key>
		  <string>com.google.Chrome</string>
		  <key>Handler</key>
		  <string>public.html</string>
		  <key>Typ</key>
		  <string>content</string>
		</dict>
	</array>
</dict>
</plist>

Have a look at the triggers, there are multiple triggers specified. If you run /Library/Application\ Support/Intellec/com.intellec.setDefaultApps/DefaultApps without specifying any triggername, "default" will be used and therefore all handler modification entries containing default as trigger will be run.