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Bug 375578

Summary: Make it easier to install a plugin in your workspace
Product: [ECD] Orion Reporter: John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component: ClientAssignee: Project Inbox <orion.client-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: davidleonigit-eclipse
Version: 0.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Description John Arthorne CLA 2012-03-28 15:24:58 EDT 
If you have authored a plugin in Orion, it is relatively difficult to install that plugin into your Orion install for testing. Here are two general approaches I can think of:

1) Create a site and add the folder containing the plugin to the site
2) Launch the site, navigate into the site to the plugin location
3) Copy the plugin URL from the address bar
4) Options > Settings > Plugins
5) Click Install, paste URL, enter.

Whew!

Slightly simpler but more magic:

1) Have the plugin HTML file open in Orion editor
2) Copy the relative URL after the hash from the address bar (/file/A/blah/plugin.html)
3) Options > Settings > Plugins
4) Click Install, paste URL, enter.

There should be an easier way to get a plugin from your workspace installed, such as:

1) Open context menu next to an HTML file, and select "Install as Plugin" from the menu.

This came out as a major pain point during our Orion tutorial.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2015-05-05 14:47:42 EDT 
Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html