Copying a Service Builder Project

To reduce development effort and save time, you can create a new Service Builder project by copying an existing project (data model and service implementation of the project). You can copy the mapping information contained in a project's service implementation, but cannot copy the generated ABAP classes as these have to be generated explicitly for the project created as a copy. It is preferred to copy the project if a project has already been created for a similar use case and you can reuse its artifacts with minimal changes. To copy an existing Service Builder project, proceed as follows:

1. Open the project you want to copy in tree view. To open a project, click (Open Project) and enter the project name or use the input help available.
2. In the tree view, right-click on the name of the project and select Copy Project. Alternatively, click  Project  Copy Project .
3. In Create Project dialog box, overwrite name of the existing project with a new name in Project field.
   Example If you want to create a new version of an existing project, you can simply append a version number, for example, 0001, to the original project name. In this way, it is apparent, that the new project is based on an earlier version of the project of the same root name. In some cases, it might be helpful to have several versions of the same project indicated by a numeric counter of this kind.
4. Overwrite the description for your new project in Description field.
5. In Copy from Template Project section, ensure name of the project you want to copy is displayed in the Project field.
6. If you want to copy the project together with its data model and service implementation, select Data Model and/or Service Implementation.
   Note

   • Copying Service Implementation refers to copying of the mapping information not runtime artifacts
   • To copy Service Implementation, you must also copy Data Model. However, you can copy Data Model without copying Service Implementation.
   • In projects of type Annotation Model for Referenced Service, you can copy only the data model, copying Service Implementation option is disabled.
7. Under Attributes, type of the project you are creating as a copy is displayed in Project Type field. The type displayed here depends on the base project. Copied project inherits the base project type.
8. Specify the generation strategy you want to use in Generation Strategy. Standard generation strategy is used as default. It is recomended to use same generation strategy that is specified for the base project.
9. In Object Directory Entry section, enter name of the package in which you want to create the copied project and click Enter.
   Note If you do not want the copied project to be created in a package that is transported from one system to another in system landscape, enter $TMP or click Local Object.