Personalizing ABAP Repository Trees

You can customize the preferences of ABAP repository trees in order to define their behavior for all ABAP projects of your Eclipse-based IDE.

To define the Start of the navigation path ABAP Development Next navigation step Project Explorer End of the navigation path preferences, the following options are provided:

Checkbox / Input field	Description
Display short descriptions	Checkbox to hide/display the relevant short description after each development object (as well as its subobjects) and ABAP package in italic. To predefine its color, choose the Change color... link and define the Decoration color. For more information, see the Related Information below.
Display object counters	Checkbox to hide/display the number of the containing objects in brackets after each tree and folder label To predefine its color, choose the Change color... link and define the Counter color. For more information, see the Related Information below.
Collect directly assigned objects in extra '..' package	Checkbox to display development objects – that are not assigned to a subpackage – in an artificial subpackage node. When selected, ADT will create an artificial subpackage node under the selected package and collect all directly assigned development objects in this subpackage node. Its folder name is derived from the selected package plus two dots as prefix. When deselecting the checkbox, the subpackage is dissolved and all objects are no more collected in it.
Collect directly assigned objects in extra '..' package	Example without selection: The development objects are directly displayed in the selected parent package (`TEST_CARS`).	Example with selection: The previously unassigned development objects are now assigned to an artificial subpackage node (`..TEST_CARS`).