UI Extensions from a Private Repo

[Jean-Marc (Jean-Marc Couffin)]

basically following this should get you going:

Install and update pyRevit extension from a private repo

@GooseG replying to your second question first: the token is produced only for the github admin (or whatever github manager role) so only once. my approach today, with my colleagues: user installs pyrevit (could install pyrevit CLI only but that would require to clone and install pyrevit repo as an extra step (pyrevit clone …) I get them to run from the command line : pyrevit extend ui extensionName https://github.com/gituser/repoName.git --dest="C:\xxxx" --token= "6984ef654eaf6a54f65ef" …

Summary of the most secured way:

1. install pyrevit
2. create a repo containing the .tab folder and its content (the .extension higher level folder will get created by the command line) and extension.json file
3. get your user to create a github account
4. add them to your private repo
5. have them create a github private access token
6. run the command line to install the toolbar
   pyrevit extend ui extensionName https://github.com/gituser/repoName.git --dest="C:\xxxx" --token=``"personnalaccesstoken123differentForEachUser"

and you can follow the explanation for the rest in the link above about the way to update from the private repo