Deploy & Install: Merge Selected of Revit Manifest Organizer

In this post, let us look at the Merge Selected feature of Revit Manifest Organizer. It is to merge the selected manifest files into one and remove the merged files (which are duplicate and not necessary anymore) automatically by default.

The Merge Selected button will be enabled when more than one manifest file are checked off. The button locates at the right side of the Revit Manifest Organizer window:

After some files are selected in the Available list and the Merge Selected button is pressed, a File Save dialog will pop up and prompt for a file name input for the resultant host manifest file. If a name like RevitAddinVB_AllInOne.addin is given, all application/command definitions in the chosen manifest files will be merged into it.

The final all-in-one manifest file may look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<RevitAddIns>
<AddIn Type="Application">
    <Assembly>C:\Temp\RevitAddinVB1\bin\Debug\RevitAddinVB1.dll</Assembly>
    <FullClassName>RevitAddinVB1.ExtApp</FullClassName>
    <ClientId>09467e9a-b298-4bfa-89b7-83a8c11cd7b9</ClientId>
    <Name>ExtApp</Name>
</AddIn>
<AddIn Type="Application">
    <Assembly>C:\Temp\RevitAddinVB2\bin\Debug\RevitAddinVB2.dll</Assembly>
    <FullClassName>RevitAddinVB2.ExtApp</FullClassName>
    <ClientId>9dfe4fa5-10e8-437f-a4d0-9093f3d0812c</ClientId>
    <Name>RevitAddinVB2</Name>
</AddIn>
<AddIn Type="Application">
    <Assembly>C:\Temp\RevitAddinVB3\bin\Debug\RevitAddinVB3.dll</Assembly>
    <FullClassName>RevitAddinVB3.ExtApp</FullClassName>
    <ClientId>59c7f68c-170b-4414-879d-5ab944c107bd</ClientId>
    <Name>RevitAddinVB3</Name>
</AddIn>
<AddIn Type="Command">
    <Assembly>C:\Temp\RevitAddinVB4\RevitAddinVB4\bin\Debug\RevitAddinVB4.dll</Assembly>
    <FullClassName>RevitAddinVB4.Class1</FullClassName>
    <ClientId>41cedd6b-ca40-41ef-a8cf-d1ff3dee0a16</ClientId>
    <Text>Command Class1</Text>
    <Description>My Test command</Description>
    <VisibilityMode>AlwaysVisible</VisibilityMode>
</AddIn>
<AddIn Type="Application">
    <Assembly>C:\Temp\RevitAddinVB5\RevitAddinVB5\bin\Debug\RevitAddinVB5.dll</Assembly>
    <FullClassName>RevitAddinVB5.ExtApp</FullClassName>
    <ClientId>2e4316b5-5444-45ea-853c-6d474c8aca59</ClientId>
    <Name>RevitAddinVB5</Name>
</AddIn>
<AddIn Type="Application">
    <Assembly>C:\Temp\RevitAddinVB6\RevitAddinVB6\bin\Debug\RevitAddinVB6.dll</Assembly>
    <FullClassName>RevitAddinVB6.ExtApp</FullClassName>
    <ClientId>41e7b2b7-1b19-4bbc-be33-6ae17f2fbbe0</ClientId>
    <Name>RevitAddinVB6</Name>
</AddIn>
</RevitAddIns>

By the way, you may want to back up all the selected files with a single click on the [Cp>] button as the demonstration already did in case those separate manifest files are still needed in the future.

By default, merged files will be removed from the working addin folder automatically so as to avoid duplicate issues. The behaviour can be changed through un-checking the Remove Merged Files option from the Other Options dialog:

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