Install-A4T-Plugin

Install-A4T-Plugin is a script to help you install Alchemy 4 Tridion Plugins in the SDL Tridion Content Manager.

Alchemy 4 Tridion (A4T) is a framework to help you develop SDL Tridion GUI extensions. Checkout their web store and GitHub projects

Install-A4T-Plugin is intended for use when developing A4T Plugins in Visual Studio, and for continuous deployment with i.e. Jenkins or Bamboo. With this script you can effortless install a plugin over and over again. A4T comes with a tool to upload your A4T plugin to alchemywebstore.com, by installing straight to the Tridion CM instead of going through the web store you will save quite a bit of development time.

Use

To install an Alchemy4Tridion plugin just call the Install-A4T-Plugin script with the following parameters.

• Path to .a4t file; this is an archive containing the Alchemy4Tridion plugin. You can download this from the Alchemy4Tridion store or get it from the Visual Studio build folder if you are developing a plugin.

• CMS URL (optional); URL of the Tridion Content Manager server. Defaults to "http://localhost"

• Username (optional) Tridion CM user with administrator rights. when username and password are not provided the logged on user's credentials will be used.

• Password (optional)

Examples

minimal .\Install-A4T-Plugin.ps1 "HelloWorld.a4t"

remote Content Manager .\Install-A4T-Plugin.ps1 "HelloWorld.a4t" -CmsHostname "http://cms" -Username administrator -Password secret

verbose mode .\Install-A4T-Plugin.ps1 "HelloWorld.a4t" -Verbose

Prerequisites

This script requires PowerShell 4.0 and .NET 4.5, this because of the zip handling.

To run any downloaded script in PowerShell you have to change the Powershell execution policy. Set it to Allfor this script. On your content manager server you likely have this set up already because the Tridion database and DXA install scripts use PowerShell too.