Installing a plug-in

After you create a plug-in, install it into the development workbench environment.

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You must have administrator privileges to install, update, or uninstall a plug-in.

Adding a plug-in to a feature
Before a plug-in can be installed, it must be added to a feature. The feature contains additional information about the plug-in that is required by the update application. A single feature can contain multiple plug-ins, fragments, and other files.
Adding a feature to an update site
After you add a plug-in to a feature, you must add the feature to an update site.
Installing, uninstalling, or updating a feature
After you add a feature to an update site, you can install the feature into the product environment, update the feature, or uninstall it.
Sharing an update site
You can make an update site available to others so that they can install your feature.
Finding feature updates
A user who installed one of your features might want to know when a new version of the feature is available. You can configure the product to automatically notify you when an update to a feature is available, or you can check for an update manually.

Parent topic: Creating user-written rules

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