Plug-in API to temporarily disable new feature guided tours
InDesign 2025 has several new panels (History, Math Expressions, Export to Adobe Express, Insert MathML) which have associated guided “tours” which bring up windows containing animation and/or an explanation of the new feature and how to use it. The menu items for these new panels that have available guided tours are indicated by a blue dot next to the menu item before the guided tour is viewed by the user. After the guided tour has been viewed, the blue dots next to the menu items seem to disappear. These new panels and their associated guided tours sometimes open without the user choosing the related menu item. We have already reported a crash that our InDesign plug-in is having related to the History panel and our plug-in's undoing of named command sequences (bug #ID-4252030). Adobe Developer Support's solution to that issue was to have our plug-in close the History panel (using its actionID) before starting our process. We added code to close the History panel if it is open, but what we are seeing now is that the History panel can start off closed at the start of our process but then it opens with the guided tour window during the process. Rather than having our plug-in constantly checking whether the History panel is open, it would be useful to have a plug-in API that temporarily disables the automatic opening of new feature panels and related guided tour windows.