Creating CIM Plugins

To create a CIM plugin, you create several XML files that define your plugin and its features. The wizards.xml file and its associated tasks.xml files define the following:

Plugin creation is straightforward, and you can take advantage of many existing components when you create a new plugin. Your plugins can also use XML-combine to extend existing plugins.

This chapter explains how to write XML code that assembles CIM components into a functioning plugin; for detailed information on those components, and how to create your own components, see the Creating CIM Worker Objects chapter.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Creating CIM Wizards and Processes

Adding Steps to a Process

Adding Tasks to Steps

Using Commands in Steps

Using Dynamic Values in Steps

Adding Validators

Handling Errors in Steps

Example CIM Plugin

 
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