Backup and Restore Plugin Assembly

I am sure lot of people must have faced main issue of losing steps and images while updating the plugin assembly.

I have added small feature in Plugin Registration tool which help you to take backup of your current assembly including (plugins / steps and images) in a xml format which can be stored on your PC and in event of losing your plugin steps or images, you can restore this backed up plugin assembly and it will recreate steps and images for you as it was backed up.

Steps are as follow

Step 1

Take a backup of your plugin assembly by right click on Assembly and selecting option “Backup/Restore Assembly”

Step 2

Once you click on “Backup/Restore Assembly” button, you will get new window where in you need to click on “Backup Assembly” button, which in return will ask for location where you want to save the backup “.xml” file.

Step 3

Please provide name and location of .xml file to be stored.

Step 4

Once you provide the name of .xml file, it will create a back in the same .xml file for all the steps and images from all the plugin from the selected Assembly, you can see the log in the window.

Step 5

In case you have lost all your steps and images from all plugin in the assembly.

Step 6

Now to restore this assembly, right click on the assembly and click on “Backup/Restore Assembly” button, you will get new window where in you need to click on “Restore Assembly” button.

This will open file window asking for you to select the backed up .xml file for restore.

Step 7

Once you provide the correct .xml file to restore, all the plugin steps and images will be restored, you can see the log in window.

Once you close this window you can just refresh your assembly and you can see all the steps and images restored.

 Hope this helps :)