Deploy & Install: Create New of Revit Manifest Organizer

In this post, let us look at the Create New feature of Revit Manifest Organizer. It is to create a new Revit manifest file for a selected valid Revit addin assembly.

The button locates at the top right corner of the Revit Manifest Organizer window:

When the Create New button is pressed, a file open dialog will show up:

If a valid Revit addin assembly is picked, e.g. the RevitAddinCS2.dll here, a manifest file will be created. A file save dialog will appear next to give a chance to change its folder from the default as specified in the Options of the Revit Manifest Organizer main dialog to anywhere we like and from the default file name as created automatically from the based name of the assembly to any name we want.

The resultant manifest may look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<RevitAddIns>
<AddIn Type="Application">
    <Assembly>C:\Temp\RevitAddinCS2\bin\Debug\RevitAddinCS2.dll</Assembly>
    <FullClassName>RevitAddinCS2.ExtApp</FullClassName>
    <ClientId>cdcaa0af-d14d-4e06-a9aa-177f1b6af5fe</ClientId>
    <Name>ExtApp</Name>
</AddIn>
</RevitAddIns>

By default only external applications and all external applications will be taken care of by the Crete New feature. If all valid external commands if any in the Revit addin assembly need to be covered as well, the External Command option of the Create New For group in the Other Options dialog which can be launched by clicking the Miscellaneous button of the Options group in the main dialog should be checked:

Revit Manifest Organizer of RevitAddinWidget provides various ways to organize Revit manifest files.