Specifying Plugin-Related Preferences

Plugins location

Plugins for Serna are located in the sernaInstallationPath\plugins directory. Also, you can specify the path to an additional directory with plugins.

Plugins activation

When you open a document of a particular type in Serna, particular plugins are loaded depending on the applied document template:

A document template specifies what plugins must be loaded for documents opened/created with this template.

For example, DITA document templates specify that TablePlugin must be loaded for DITA documents.
```
.....

<t:load-plugins>TablePlugin</t:load-plugins>
.....
```

Serna plugin description files ( *.spd) list document templates for which they must be loaded.

For example, dita-reference.spd specifies that DitaReference_Py plugin must be loaded for documents opened with document templates of DITA 1.0 and DITA 1.1 categories.

.....
<serna-plugin>
  <name>DitaReference_Py</name>
  <dll>$SERNA_PLUGINS_BIN/pyplugin/pyplugin21</dll>
  <load-for>
    <template>
      <category>DITA 1.0</category>
    </template>
    <template>
      <category>DITA 1.1</category>
    </template>
  </load-for>
.....

It is possible to disable and enable installed plugins for all document types.