Auto update extension once deployed...

Hi Mateo,

What Trevor is talking about is valid, but I think it depends a lot on what kind of Adobe Creative Cloud licenses your client has. If you're marketing to Creative Cloud Enterprise or Creative Cloud Teams customers, their updates might be managed through an Admin or they might use self-service installs.

If the clients/customers have individual Creative Cloud seats, the update experience is more like what Marie outlined.

Best,

Erin

If you where not going through the exchange then you could have the extension download from you site and store the files in an accessible location outside of the extensions folder in a way that won't mess up the signature.

There are quite a few caveats for doing this including.

HTTPS connections can be a real pain in the neck when the IT department etc. uses it's own proxies and you need to be able to add the appropriate security certificates to the extension.

Similarly the IT departments might not have you site opened.

The  "accessible location"  is going to be user based and not Admin based so it would need to be done for each user

The  "accessible location"  can well be not that accessible on some users systems

Adobe doesn't want you doing this as they don't want you loading malicious code onto their users system's. It's a bit mean hearted of them but one can see where they are coming from.

Best of luck.

Trevor 

Hi Mateo,

For Adobe XD plugins this process is simple; users are prompted to update when one or more of their installed extensions have an update available.

However, I don't think this is the case for extensions listed on the Exchange. I'm asking around about this.

Best,

Erin