topic Re: multiple Revit plugins in Revit API Forum

multiple Revit plugins

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 04:05:59 GMT

I have created 3 Revit plugins for Revit 2013,2014 and 2015 and successfully installed all of them by setting the RemovePreviousVersion property to "False" and DetectNewerInstalledVersions to "False".

For eg. Revit 2013 plugin version 3.0.1, Revit 2014 plugin version 4.0.1 and Revit 2015 plugin version 5.0.1.

Now i made certain changes to all the plugins and created them again with different version number and installed. but the problem is system is still keeping the older versions. the new versions are

For eg. Revit 2013 plugin version 3.0.2, Revit 2014 plugin version 4.0.2 and Revit 2015 plugin version 5.0.2.

I am using windows installer and tried changing the AssemblyVersion in c# code but still not getting.

I cannot change the RemovePreviousVersion and DetectNewerInstalledVersions to True as i need all the versions for Revit 2013/2014/2015 to work.

Is there any way i can keep three version for three revit architecture with updated version of plugins.

Any suggestions please.

Thanks.

Re: multiple Revit plugins

jeremytammik — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:36:35 GMT

Dear Dorathijf,

Yes, that is no problem at all.

I am afraid I will have to answer your question without any idea whatsoever what RemovePreviousVersion and DetectNewerInstalledVersions may be referring to or mean.

As far as I know, whatever they are, they are of no relevance whatsoever to Revit add-ins.

All that matters for a Revit add-in is the add-in manifest with the filename extension *.addin.

There are separate locations for those to be read by Revit.exe for each of the versions you mention, e.g. I see

C:\Users\tammikj\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2015

and

C:\Users\tammikj\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2014

on my system.

Those are the locations for the user-specific add-in settings.

There are other locations for sharing with all users.

Similar separate locations are defined for Revit 2013 as well.

They are all documented in the Revit API getting started material:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#2

Specifically, in the developer guide section on add-in registration:

> Developers
  > Revit API Developers Guide
    > Introduction
      > Getting Started
        > Add-In Integration
          > Add-in Registration

http://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2015/ENU/?guid=GUID-4FFDB03E-6936-417C-9772-8FC258A261F7

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Re: multiple Revit plugins

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 21:38:21 GMT

Thank you for your reply. I worked it out somehow and now i can run all the three add-in at that same time.