Nesting Development Components

Use

You can organize your software by nesting development components (DCs).

Procedure

You can also use a component node to start creating a DC. In this case, you create a child DC. The selected component is automatically registered as a parent component in the child component.

In the Development Infrastructure perspective, choose your DC. Select the Child DC tab.
Choose Create Child DC... button and specify the new child DC's specifics. Choose Next .
Make the settings, depending on the selected DC type. In most cases, you can simply accept the proposed settings.
Choose Finish .

Changes in the Design Time Repository

Creating a new component triggers changes in the Design Time Repository (DTR). Unless the DC is local, you must now add the created files to an activity. For a new component, create a new activity.

A window showing open activities appears:

Enter the name and description of the new activity.
Select the created activity and confirm with OK .

You can now work with the new DC.

Note

For an overview of the files in this activity, switch to the Open Activities view.

Note

If you do not want to add certain changes to an activity, or you want to include a local component in the NWDI at a later time, you need detailed knowledge of which files and folders are actually submitted to version control and which exist only on the local file system.

You should not submit any files to version control that are stored in folders named bin or have a name starting with gen .