Plug in installation past fire wall
-
I'm trying to add some plug ins to 2013 in work and we have the usual firewall and admin blah blah to make it difficult.
If I download the RBZ at home and take them in on a stick is the installation on 2013 the same as it was before just pop them in the plug in folder ? -
I would say yes, except, as I understand it, the rbz must be renamed in the OS(windows particularly) as zip, then unzipped to the destination folder.
EDIT: But then, wait for other responses, if any.
-
If you don't have permissions to install Plugins to the main folder at work, what makes you think you'll be allowed to manually install them?
No need you home_stick ??
You could already download the RBZ at work, rename it as ZIP and drag the files/subfolders into the Plugins folder... but chances are you don't have permission to do that either...
You might think you have done it but a VirtualStore location might really be used confusing you even more...
To add/delete/manage plugins, or auto-install RBZs into to the Plugins folder, you need FULL security permissions...
If work's IT guys won't give you that, then your alternative is to talk the IT guys into installing Fredo's AdditionalPluginFolders script in the main Plugins folder. http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=000_AdditionalPluginFolders
Then set up your own local Plugins folder - somewhere you will have full permissions.
Fredo's tool will add that folder to the $LOAD_PATH and auto-load the plugins from there...The native RBZ installer will still baulk because it always wants to use the main Plugins folder, which on PCs in currently in the restricted 'Programs Files' tree...
Hopefully future versions of SketchUp will place the default Plugins folder somewhere that a User has unlimited access to...However, you will then be able to manually add/delete/manage plugins in your own custom-Plugins folder - from RBZ or ZIP archives etc.
Unlike the native RBZ installer... the SketchUcation 'PluginStore' AutoInstaller spots if you have your own custom-Plugins folder and offers you the chance to auto-install into that - either as an alternative to the main folder, or if you have insufficient rights, instead of the main folder...
The SketchUcation 'Archive Installer' also spots if you have your own custom-Plugins folder and offers you the chance to install into that - either as an alternative to the main folder, or if you have insufficient rights, instead of the main folder - it also installs RBZ and ZIP archives...
The SketchUcation 'Plugins Manager' also recognizes custom-Plugins folders and allows you to manage plugins in those too [top-bar drop-down items, IF available].
It's a similar story for the SketchUcation 'Plugins Uninstaller' tool...
Extensions are not segregated by their loader's folder-location, so managing those is done 'globally' as they are already 'loaded', from whatever their origin was... -
It's been a while since I was in an office with all the security that they require so I have little knowledge about computer systems outside of as a design tool.
-
If you have 'your own computer' and can therefore do simple admin tasks yourself, then simply fix your Plugins folder's permissions etc - see this stickie http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=508319#p508319
Like will be much easier thereafter...
Advertisement