topic Python Add-In: Check for newer version in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-add-in-check-for-newer-version/m-p/78148#M6302 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm building a Python add-In to work with our <SPAN style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">file geodatabase</SPAN> (simplify data entry, popular searches, zoom to, export, etc.). Right now, I'm the only one using it, but soon it will be made available to other users.</P><P>The Problem is: The add-in is far from final, and so it will change quite a lot. The gdb may change too, although to a far lesser extent.</P><P>To avoid errors (Python exceptions as well as corrupt data entries) and to be sure to provide the newest version, I'd like to disable the add-in if it's not the latest version. Ideally, the toolbar would be disabled and a message box would be displayed whwen starting ArcMap or activating the add-in to install the newest version.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Is there any way / best practice to do this?</P><P></P><P>(Right now, I'm thinking of checking a hardcoded version number versus a text file at a hardcoded location on our network and setting the "enabled" variable of the toolbar elements accordingly, but that seems somewhat clunky.)</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 May 2019 16:02:57 GMT JohannesLindner 2019-05-16T16:02:57Z Python Add-In: Check for newer version https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-add-in-check-for-newer-version/m-p/78148#M6302 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm building a Python add-In to work with our <SPAN style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">file geodatabase</SPAN> (simplify data entry, popular searches, zoom to, export, etc.). Right now, I'm the only one using it, but soon it will be made available to other users.</P><P>The Problem is: The add-in is far from final, and so it will change quite a lot. The gdb may change too, although to a far lesser extent.</P><P>To avoid errors (Python exceptions as well as corrupt data entries) and to be sure to provide the newest version, I'd like to disable the add-in if it's not the latest version. Ideally, the toolbar would be disabled and a message box would be displayed whwen starting ArcMap or activating the add-in to install the newest version.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Is there any way / best practice to do this?</P><P></P><P>(Right now, I'm thinking of checking a hardcoded version number versus a text file at a hardcoded location on our network and setting the "enabled" variable of the toolbar elements accordingly, but that seems somewhat clunky.)</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 May 2019 16:02:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-add-in-check-for-newer-version/m-p/78148#M6302 JohannesLindner 2019-05-16T16:02:57Z