Delivery Manager Tool - Information - How to get the list of custom plugins

Purpose

This page provides you with the method to retrieve the list of custom plugins that have been installed by a user.

For more information, refer to:

For CAST AIP Version 8.0.x and higher : Pages Extending CAST AIP > Skip to end of banner > Go to start of banner > Install an extension > Step 2: Handle DMT plugins

Applicable in CAST Version

Release	Yes/No
8.3.x	✅
8.2.x	✅
8.1.x	✅
8.0.x	✅
7.3.x	✅

Applicable RDBMS

RDBMS	Yes/No
Oracle Server	✅
Microsoft SQL Server	✅
CSS2	✅

Action plan

Open a Command prompt
Go to your StandardPlugins folder that is in your \Deliverymanagertool folder by running the the following command line :
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cd \DeliveryManagerTool\standardPlugins

Save the list of folder inside the standardplugins folder in a csv file by running the following command line :
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dir/w >"\standard_plugins.csv"

Figure 1 4. Go to the the folder where you saved the list and open the Standard_Plugins.csv with Excel 5. Clean the file as below and save the file :
Figure 2 6. Go to the DELIVERY folder, in an application folder. 7. Open a file for which extension is *.entity.xml. 8. Copy the list of plugins list as below screenshot :
Figure 3 9. Paste it in a new file. 10. Do a text replacement in Regular Expression mode. 1. Replace “:” with “-”, click replace all 2. Replace “;” with “\n”, click replace all 3. Save the file in csv format in the same location as the Standard_Plugins.csv file
Figure 4
The result will be like :
Figure 5 11. Open the two csv files with Excel 12. Compare them using the option vlookup in the file Entity_plugins.csv. : The formula is =IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(A1;Standard_Plugins.csv!$A:$A;1;0));“THIS PLUGIN IS NOT A STANDARD PLUGIN, IT MUST TO BE ADDED”;“THIS IS A STANDARD PLUGIN”)
Figure 6 13. The additional plugins are those that are not found by the vlookup function.