Activating Development Objects

Context

You use this activation function to activate all your inactive development objects in your ABAP project, any selected objects, or just subobjects of a main object (methods in classes).

Note Make sure that the development object you wish to activate is syntactically correct. Before an object is activated, the system performs a syntax check of the entire object (main program, function group, class, and so on). However, you can also activate development objects even if they contain syntax errors.

Note You can run the activation of one or more development objects in the background. This enables you to continue working on other development objects while the activation process is being continued. For this purpose, select the Run in Background button while the activation is running.

Procedure

To activate the development object that is currently opened in the ABAP source editor, click the icon (Activate the ABAP Development Object) in the toolbar.
To activate a selection of development objects:
1. Multi-select (single selection is also possible) the relevant object's nodes in the Project Explorer.
2. Open the context menu and choose Activate.
To activate development objects using the inactive objects worklist for the ABAP project:
1. Open the ABAP source editor for a single development object of the project.
2. Open the list to the right of the activation icon in the toolbar and choose Activate Inactive ABAP Development Objects... .
  The worklist with entries for all inactive objects appears.
3. In the Worklist window, select the relevant objects and choose Activate.

Results

If no error exists, activation will be completed. Otherwise, an error message is displayed. In this case, SAP recommends that you select the No button to solve the error in the Problems view. If you select the Yes button, the development objects will be activated with errors.