Transport View

To release activities in the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, use the Transport View of the Change Management Service (CMS).

The Transport View provides you with a hierarchy of all activities that you have checked in and activated or released in a development configuration.

When you release the activities, they are grouped automatically in change requests. You see the names of the change requests as a separate subnode under the status nodes, as follows:

·         <Name of the change request>

This node lists all activities that you have released with this change request.

Since the activities are assigned to a change request automatically when they are released, the Waiting node contains a virtual change request,  <default>, under which the transport view collects all waiting activities.

 

The hierarchy is structured as followed:

·        Development Configuration

¡        DTR Workspace

§          Failed

Any change requests that caused export errors

§          Waiting

Any activities that have not yet been released

§          Released

All change requests that have been released

Functions in the Context Menu

·         Release

You use this function to forward the activity to the CMS transport control functions. The CMS exports the activity and places it in the import queue of the follow-on system.

You can only execute this function for activities in the state  Waiting.

·         Restart export

You use this function to restart the export. You may need to do this if the export step could not be performed in full. You can use this function for change requests under the  Failed node only.

·         Export Log

The export log records the state of the export step and is available for change requests that have the state  Failed or  Released.

·        View Activity Details

The detail view of the activity contains the following information:

¡        Display Name/Description

Name and description of the activity

¡        Elements

Resources included in the activity

¡        Last Modified

Date the activity was last modified and the user

¡        Integrated in

Information about the DTR workspaces into which the activity is integrated. This includes information about whether the activity has already been imported into the consolidation system.

·        Properties

The properties contain the parameters that are used to define the activities in the DTR.

Menu Functions

The Menu  of the transport view contains the following functions:

Link to the CMS Web User Interface

To access the Web interface of the CMS directly, choose Go to CMS WebUI. You can perform all post-release transport actions in this interface.

Filter Options

You can filter the activities display using the following criteria:

·        User Filter

¡        Current User(Default)

This filter shows only those activities/change requests created by the user who is currently logged on.

¡        Another User

You can use this filter to display the activities/change requests of another user. When you select this option, the system prompts you for the user ID of the user whose activities/change requests you want to display.

¡        All Users

This filter displays all activated change requests and activities.

·        Date Filter

¡        Last 2 Weeks (Default)

This filter shows you the change requests from the last two weeks. You can only use it for the Released status.

¡        Unlimited

This filter shows you all activities.

Sort Options

You can sort the activities in the following ways:

·        Sort Change Requests

You can sort the change requests in the display using the following criteria:

¡        By Creation Date

This setting sorts the change requests by the date they were created, either ascending or descending. The date is the date on which the activity was released.

¡        By Name

This setting sorts the activities by name, either ascending or descending.

·        Sort Activities

You can sort the activities in the display using the following criteria:

¡        By Checkin Date (Default)

This setting sorts the activities by the date they were checked in, either ascending or descending.

¡        By Name

This setting sorts the activities by name, either ascending or descending.

·        Sort Activity Elements

You can sort the elements of an activity using the following criteria:

¡        By Path (Default)

This setting sorts the elements of the activity alphabetically by the path, either ascending or descending.

¡        By Name

This setting sorts the elements of the activity alphabetically by name, either ascending or descending.

User-Specific Settings

To set the transport view so that you can see at the workspace level whether there are any software components with waiting or canceled activities, you can choose Customize View ® Enable Pending Workspace Decorators. The result is shown by the following decorators on the workspace icon:

·         Activities have the status Waiting.

·         Activities have the status Failed.

If both statuses occur in a single workspace, the Failed status overrides the Waiting status.

This function is intended to give administrators and quality managers a quick overview of the state of workspaces and software components. Since checking the workspaces is highly runtime-intensive, the function is disabled by default for performance reasons.

 

Legend

For an overview and explanation of all the icons used in the Transport View, choose Display Legend.