jeremytammik / RevitLookup

Interactive Revit RFA and RVT project database exploration tool to view and navigate BIM element parameters, properties and relationships.
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installation for Revit 2022 #89

Closed matejonas closed 2 years ago

matejonas commented 2 years ago

Hi all,

I tried to install RevitLookup for Revit 2022 using 'Revit Lookup.msi' which within the RevitLookup-2022.0.0.15.zip file. The addin will appear in earlier Revit versions, but not in 2022, it will not create the .dll and .addin files in the appropriate folder. Does anyone have any idea why the two files are not installed in the correct folder? Or where can I find these two files inside the zip? image

Thank you for your help, Máté

jeremytammik commented 2 years ago

Oh dear, I am not knowledgeable at all with the installer. As you have noticed, all you need to do is manually copy the DLL (.NET assembly) and addin (manifest file) to the appropriate Revit AddIns folder. I cannot say why the MSI is not automatically doing so, though.

jeremytammik commented 2 years ago

Maybe @peterhirn can help?

peterhirn commented 2 years ago

Hi. The installer (msi) is afaik not maintained by anyone. Maybe it should be removed from the repository? We could add a WiX (https://wixtoolset.org/) script to the repo and build installers with the CI at some point. I don't have enough spare time for this at the moment. ;)

Please download the latest version from https://lookupbuilds.com and unzip/install as described by @jeremytammik above.

jeremytammik commented 2 years ago

Aha. Good. Thank you very much for the explanation. Yes, I agree, I should remove the msi, or at least make it obvious that it is not up-to-date and not actively maintained.

matejonas commented 2 years ago

ahh, great, i didn't know this page (https://lookupbuilds.com), i always downloaded msi from github and installed it, but from now on this page will be my home page :D thank you very much for your help