Overview
Plugins are encapsulated solution components, it can embrace displays, scripts, symbols, templates, and more. When integrated into solutions, they can operate in a read-only mode, ensuring that the original configurations remain intact. On the software platform, users encounter two distinct interfaces concerning plugins:
Solution/Import Plugin: Here, users manage the plugins integrated into their existing solution.
Solution/Export: This interface is designated for the creation of new plugins, catering to evolving needs and functionalities.
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Importing a Plugin
On Solution → Import Plugin, you find all the information required to import a component into your solution. Once you have an exported item from any other solution, you will be able to import it in your own solution.
On the top of the display, you will find these buttons:
| functions and options | |
|---|---|
| Refresh | Refreshes the display; updating the grid with all the components that can be imported into the solution. |
| Clear Cache | Clear the component cache. |
| Add Component | This button opens the “Add Component” display where you can configure the properties of the component. This display allows you to select if the component will be an embedded component or if it will be added as a manageable plugin. |
| Edit Component | This button allows editing of the pre-created component, but it will not be possible if the “Contents Hidden” option was used to create it. In the grid below these buttons, you will find all the components already exported and some information about them |
| Show plugins from local folder | Directly searches the directory for any pre-built components available on your computer. |
| Show components from Cloud | This list can contain any pre-created component available in your computer or in the Cloud. |
Note Item
If the component has been exported using the “Force as Plugin” option, the “Add as component” option (embedded in the solution) will not be able to be selected.
| Add component popup window | |
|---|---|
| Component | Name of the component |
| Add and merge to solution | Select if the component will be an embedded component. |
| Add as Plugin | If it will be added as a manageable plugin. |
| Instaled plugins grid on the Solution | |
|---|---|
| Name | The name of the component. |
| Preview | A preview image that represents the component. |
| Source | The location of the component; it can be Local or in the Cloud. |
| Version | The version of the component (e.g.: 0). |
| Product Version | The version of the product used to create the component (e.g.: fs- 8.1.1). |
| Plugin Installed | A check that represents if there are available updates for the plugin. |
Installed Plugins
On Solution → Import Plugin, you find information about the pre-installed plugins in the solution.
| Installed Plugins functions and options | |
|---|---|
| Refresh | Refreshes the display; updating the grid with all the items that had already been imported into the solution. |
| Update | Search for updates in the Plugin, based on the version number. |
| Remove | Remove the plugin and dependencies from the solution. |
| Import and Merge | If the plugin has not been created with the option "Force as Plugin" enabled, so you can convert the plugin into a component and merge it into your solution. |
In the grid below these buttons, you will find all the components already exported and some information about them.
Component information | |
|---|---|
| Name | The name of the component. |
| Preview | A preview image that represents the component. |
| Source | The location of the component; it can be Local or in the Cloud. |
| Version | The version of the component (e.g.: 0). |
| Has Update | A check that represents if there are available updates for the plugin. |
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