Plug-in dependencies

Question

Hi,

What is the best way to identify all objects in an environment that are using a plug-in?

Some plug-ins are represented by new expressions, some by new smart services, other by both. It's very complicated to export all applications from an environment and search with notepad++ for all the expressions and smart services of the plug-ins. Is there any other way?

Thanks.

Conor Cahill · Answer

I don't have a good solution to find current uses, but in the future a way to do this is to encapsulate your plug-in in an expression rule or process model, and then use that whenever you would need to use the plug-in. This gives you a few cool things:

1. You can easily find all uses of the plug-in by searching for dependents on the encapsulating expression rules / process models.
2. Now you only have one place to modify when you need to make changes to how the plug-in is called.