Settings.bundle version number is updating as $(MARKETING_VERSION)

Question

I have an app which was setting versions automatically when I incremented from

XCode > General > Version.

But recently I have updated XCode to 11.0 and seems the script is not working as expected:

version=`/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleShortVersionString" $SRCROOT/MyApp/Info.plist`
version+=" ("
version+=`/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleVersion" $SRCROOT/MyApp/Info.plist`
version+=")"
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy "$SRCROOT/MyApp/Settings.bundle/Root.plist" -c "set PreferenceSpecifiers:1:DefaultValue $version"

Above script suppose to automatically update version and would have been visible in Settings > App.

But the question is there any change need to be done for this script to make automatically update version number from XCode?

Currently it is being replaced by scripts as $(MARKETING_VERSION) when version is incremented from XCode > General > Version which is not correct.

Isn't [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56722677/how-to-read-current-app-version-in-xcode-11-with-script) what you are looking for? [how-to-read-current-app-version-in-xcode-11-with-script](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56722677/how-to-read-current-app-version-in-xcode-11-with-script) — Mojtaba Hosseini, Oct 25 '19 at 23:25
It worked by doing some changes as mentioned in my answer. But I am not sure if it is good idea to extract from storyboard as you are doing. — Nagarjun, Oct 26 '19 at 07:10
That's not extracting **from** storyboard. That replacing it. — Mojtaba Hosseini, Oct 26 '19 at 07:11
Yeah. Found new thing today that we can get version number from MARKETING_VERSION ;) — Nagarjun, Oct 26 '19 at 07:16

dgimb · Answer 1 · 2019-10-26T11:04:09.327

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The version string $MARKETING_VERSION as well as build number $CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION are now exposed as environment variable during the build process as they are now persisted in the .pbxproj configuration.

You should be able to achieve what you want like this:

version="$MARKETING_VERSION ($CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION)"
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy "$SRCROOT/MyApp/Settings.bundle/Root.plist" -c "set PreferenceSpecifiers:1:DefaultValue $version"

edited Oct 26 '19 at 11:04

answered Oct 25 '19 at 05:34

dgimb

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$CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION do not display anything. However version is displayed in $MARKETING_VERSION. – Nagarjun Oct 26 '19 at 09:04

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 26 '19 at 07:02

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It worked by displaying MARKETING_VERSION itself: Thanks @dgimb and @Mojtaba Hosseini for your answers.

version="$MARKETING_VERSION"
version+=" ("
version+=`/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleVersion" $SRCROOT/MyApp/Info.plist`
version+=")"

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy "$SRCROOT/MyApp/Settings.bundle/Root.plist" -c "set PreferenceSpecifiers:1:DefaultValue $version"

answered Oct 26 '19 at 07:02

Nagarjun

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I have an error message *Set: Entry, "PreferenceSpecifiers:1:DefaultValue", Does Not Exist Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code* – ΩlostA Nov 05 '19 at 14:31
Can you share the script. – Nagarjun Nov 06 '19 at 00:17

Settings.bundle version number is updating as $(MARKETING_VERSION)

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