UI Elements Runtime. Can't get started. What am I doing wrong?

[Captian-Brink]

I’ve created a new project to explore the runtime UI Elements. I am following the getting started google doc found here.

I have these packages installed:

The first step reads: “From the menu, select GameObject > UI Toolkit > UI Document.”
I do not have that option:

I don’t have the option to manually create a Panel Settings asset either:

What am I missing?

[AlexandreT-unity]

If you want to author runtime UI, you need to install the UIToolkit package as well. Read “How to get started?” in the following thread for the instructions:

UI Toolkit 1.0-preview available

Hi everyone, We're excited to share the first version of the new UI Toolkit package, expanding on the existing VisualElement tech stack (formerly UIElements) to include visual authoring workflows and runtime support. If you’re interested in trying it, read on! What’s new? Let’s start with the name. UI Toolkit was formerly known as UIElements . This marks the beginning of the transition to the new name. UI Toolkit can now be distributed as a package, which makes it more convenient to get…

The latest version is specified here:

UI Toolkit - Latest Version: 1.0.0-preview.18

Hello, We'll use this thread to announce UI Toolkit preview releases and what they contain. You can refer to the initial announcement thread to get more information about the UI Toolkit package and how to get started. As always, please start a new thread if you want to report a bug or want to provide feedback on a specific topic. Here's what we're currently working on: New text workflow - including rich text More platform coverage Stability improvements Documentation

[JuliaP_Unity]

Hello, if I’m seeing correctly you don’t have the UI Toolkit package, can you confirm that you followed the steps on the announcement thread to install it? It’s about modifying the manifest to contain the reference to the package (currently version 1.0.0-preview.6).

[Captian-Brink]

I got it working. For anyone else reading this thread with a similar issue:

I had to manually modify the packages.json to include:
“com.unity.ui”: “1.0.0-preview.3”

When I restarted Unity there was an error saying something about a duplicate dll:
UnityEngine.UIElementsModule.dll

I located the dll in /ProjectName/Library/ScriptAssemblies/ and moved it into a directory outside of the Unity project, relaunched, and it worked. One error popped up, but it cleared without further issue.