Packaging and distributing pattern plug-ins

Package the plug-ins for your user-defined pattern into a pattern archive so that pattern users can download and install the pattern on their own system.

Before you begin

Before you can complete this task, you must have completed the following tasks for your user-defined pattern:

1. Creating a pattern authoring project
2. Selecting the source files to use for a user-defined pattern
3. Building pattern plug-ins
4. Testing a user-defined pattern

About this task

To enable pattern users to use your user-defined pattern, you must create a pattern archive from the pattern plug-ins. The pattern archive is published to a pattern community site, which is either a website or shared file system directory. The pattern user can download and install the pattern archive from the pattern community site. The following tasks describe this process:

• The pattern author creates a pattern archive, see Creating a pattern archive.
• The pattern author uploads the pattern archive to a patterns community site, see Uploading a pattern archive.
• The pattern user downloads and installs the pattern archive, see Downloading and installing a pattern archive.

If you want to uninstall a user-defined pattern, see Uninstalling a pattern archive.