Upgrade plugins

Upgrade plugins for each CCMS Desktop instance that you have in your deployment.

About this task

To upgrade plugins:

Procedure

  1. Go to the 7.4 area of the MadCap Software Downloads site:
    https://cms.ixiasoft.com/downloads/CCMS_7.4/
  2. Click the CCMS_Desktop folder.
  3. Click the Dropins_version folder where version is the latest version.
  4. Download the required drop-ins.
    Note: Because packages may have a different list of plugins in them, download only the new version of plugins that already exist in the folder.
    Table 1. Available plugins

    Plugin

    Function

    Requirements

    com.ixiasoft.eclipse.​dita-cms

    Provides main functionality

    Required in every package

    com.ixiasoft.eclipse.​ReleaseManagement

    		 Provides functionality for IXIA Dynamic Release Management.

    Required only if your deployment includes DRM add-on

    com.ixiasoft.eclipse.​oxygen.author

    -or-

    com.ixiasoft.eclipse.​oxygen.editor

    		 Provides the CCMS Desktop context menus in the Oxygen XML Editor installed in Eclipse. It also installs the IXIA CCMS Desktop User Guide online help.

    Required only if your deployment includes DRM add-on.

    com.ixiasoft.textml.​textmladmin

    -and-

    com.ixiasoft.eclipse.​dita-cms-admin
    Together, these two plugins enable you to administer the CCMS.
    • The textml.textmladmin plugin allows users to interact with the MadCap Software TEXTML Server component.
    • The eclipse.dita-cms-admin plugin provides access to the CCMS administration tools.

    Required only in packages for CCMS Administrators

    Note: Both plugins are required for CCMS Administrators.
  5. In the %packagesfolder%\dropins folder of your Eclipse packaging directory, take the following actions:
    1. Create a subfolder named after each of the new plugins. 
      C:\temp\desktop-packages\prod\dropins\com.ixiasoft.dita-cms-[build version]
      Where:
      • [version] is the number of the release
      • [build version] is the number of the software build
    2. Extract the content of the downloaded MadCap Software plugins to the subfolders you created.
    At completion, the structure should be similar to the example here, which shows a package with the DRM and Oxygen plugins.
    Drop-ins structure
  6. Delete the following old plugins from %packagesfolder%\dropins:
    1. com.ixiasoft.eclipse.dita-cms-<old-version>
    2. com.ixiasoft.eclipse.dita-cms-admin-<old-version>
    3. com.ixiasoft.eclipse.oxygen.author-<old-version>
    4. com.ixiasoft.eclipse.oxygen.editor-<old-version>
    5. com.ixiasoft.eclipse.ReleaseManagement-<old-version>