Setting Preferences for the Design Time Repository 

Use

Using this option, you can set:

●     External merge or difference tool preferences.

●     File extensions with known content.

●     A list of resource name patterns to be excluded from the version control.

Prerequisites

You work in the Design Time Repository perspective of the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.

With the Design Time Repository (DTR) you can set up the following preferences:

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       1.      From the menu path, choose Window  → Preferences.

       2.      In the dialog that appears, choose Team  → DTR. Here you can specify:

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                            a.      Managing monitoring of workspace:

You can specify which types of actions related to the files should be monitored.

                            b.      How to save a dirty editor before the check-in.

The  “dirty editor” is a file that has been edited in the editor but you have not yet saved it explicitly after making some changes to it.

                            c.      The specific decorator settings.

The “decorators” are the additional indicators on the icons that are displayed in the various views of the Design Time Repository perspective. Decorators are used to differentiate between the various states of a resource.

                            d.      Session tracing.

We recommend you to use session tracing in the case of errors, so that you can get extensive logs to check what the problem could be.

       3.      Choose Team  → DTR → AutoMerge Exclusions. This allows you to specify which files should not be automatically merged during a merge operation, which you can use for resolving conflicts in DTR. The files with extensions specified in this list will not be merged automatically.

       4.      Choose Team  → DTR → Connection Settings. This allows you to specify the connections settings for a certain DTR client.

Enabling compression is a setting provided usually by client servers communicating using HTTP. This setting depends on the usage pattern and the available network bandwidth. Using compressed HTTP communication will improve performance in wide area network (WAN) scenarios where the network bandwidth is the limiting factor.

       5.      Choose Team  → DTR → External Diff/Merge. This allows you to use tools that are external to the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio for merging or finding differences between certain files.  For merging tools you can also specify additional parameters for the tool.

       6.      Choose OK.