Automise Plugin Architecture - ActionStudio

Automise ActionStudio is a companion product included with Automise. Its and IDE for defining and developing actions to allow anyone to create custom actions for Automise.

Actions can be developed in any of the following languages:

• Active Script (VBScript, JScript)
• .Net languages

ActionStudio is used to create Action Packages, which contain one or more Automise Actions.  The action package file defines the action properties, events, options, and property pages in an XML file format.  Actions written in Active Script are completely contained within the action package, whereas .Net based actions refer to external dlls and assemblies for the implementation of the action.

What are Automise Plugins?

Automise Plugins are extra functionality (actions) for Automise.  The plugins are developed in ActionStudio, and are then installed into the Automise ActionDefs folder.  The plugin definition file is simply an XML file, which can be edited by hand but is much easier to edit the action within ActionStudio.  Actions that are implemented with .NET will require the assembly file to be placed in the ActionDefs\Assemblies folder.

To launch ActionStudio,  click on "Action Studio" under the "Tools" menu in Automise and Automise Lite.