Deploy & Install: Dismantle Selected of Revit Manifest Organizer

In this post, let us look at the Dismantle Selected feature of Revit Manifest Organizer. It is to dismantle the selected single manifest file into some separate new ones if it contains multiple Application and/or Command definitions.

The Dismantle Selected button will be enabled when one and only one manifest file is checked off in the Available list. The button locates at the right side of the Revit Manifest Organizer window:

After a single file is selected (like the RevitAddinVB_AllInOne we merged previously) and the Dismantle Selected button is clicked, a few new manifest files will be created automatically each of which contains only one definition for either application or command type:

As can be noticed, the new files follow a simple and good naming convention as:

<Original Base Name>_<Assembly File Name>_<Application/Command>_<FullClassName>.AddIn

In this way, it saves effort to specify file names one by one, and the new manifest file names are self explanatory and have rare chances of name clashing.

If the new files are checked off and opened with ether the View Selected or the Edit Selected feature, it can be inspected that each new file contains only one application or command definition with the same information as before in the single all-in-one file.

By the way, you may want to back up the all-in-one file with a single click on the [Cp>] button as the demonstration here already did in case the file is still needed in the future.

By default, the all-in-one file will be removed from the working addin folder automatically so as to avoid duplicates. The behaviour can be changed through un-checking the Remove Dismantled Files option from the Other Options dialog:

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