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Use

SAP Gateway Service Builder provides an easy-to-use mass maintenance view, which allows you to create, edit, delete, and organize data objects and their properties in your Service Builder project. Copy and paste functions further enhance the usability of this view. Regardless of the data object type you want to edit, the editing process is identical.

Overview

Overview of functions available in the mass maintenance view.

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Description

Close View

Choose Close View to close mass maintenance view.

Display/Change

Choose Display/Change to toggle between the display and change modes for the data artifacts in the project.

Append Row

Choose Append Row to append a new row to the bottom of the table.

Insert Row

Select appropriate row in the mass maintenance view and choose Insert Row to insert a new row above the cursor position.

Delete Row

Select appropriate row in the mass maintenance view and choose Delete Row to delete the row.

Sort in Ascending / Descending Order

Choose Sort Ascending/Sort Descending Order to sort data objects in ascending or descending order.

Choose Layout

Choose, change, save, and manage templates.

Copy to Clipboard

Choose Copy to Clipboard to copy the selected row(s) from the table to the clipboard so you can subsequently paste these rows elsewhere.

Cut to Clipboard

Choose Cut to Clipboard to cut the selected row(s) from the table and copy them to the clipboard so you can subsequently paste these rows elsewhere.

Paste from Clipboard

Choose Paste from Clipboard to paste the row(s) you previously copied to the clipboard to a new location.

Invert Checkboxes

When selecting and deselecting checkbox values in the mass maintenance view, for example, to define properties, select the cells or whole columns for which you want to invert the current checkbox values and choose Invert. This enables you to change the checkbox values from selected or deselected for one or more cells, that is, invert the current values.

Furthermore, choose Select or Deselect from the dropdown list to select or deselect all checkboxes in the selected columns.

Redefine Attributes

When redefining an existing service in your project that is referenced from another model, choose Redefine Attributes to change the existing attributes of the service.

Undo Redefinition

After you have redefined the attributes of an existing service in your project that is referenced from another model, choose Undo Redefinition to reset the attributes you have redefined to the original service attributes.

Undo Identical Redefinition

While redefining, if you change the name and label of an artifact more than once and in the course of editing you revert back to its original name, as in base project, clicking Undo Identical Redefinition makes all such fields non-editable, indicating these fields are not redefined and are same as in base project.

Clicking Undo Identical Redefinition enables Redefine Attributes so that you can redefine name and label column of those artifacts, if needed, later.

Annotations

Displays vocabulary namespace if applicable for project. For example, Org.OData.Core.V1. If you want to work with vocabularies for annotations, you must create a project of type Service with Vocabulary-Based Annotations.

After making relevant changes in the appropriate data objects in mass maintenance view, choose Save to save the changes to your Service Builder project.

More Information

For more information about the copy and paste functions, see Copying Data Model Artifacts.