Creating Development Components 

Prerequisites

You work in the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio in the Development Infrastructure perspective.

You have imported a development configuration and are logged on to the SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI).

Procedure

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       1.      Switch to Inactive DCs mode.

       2.      Expand the development configuration to the one where you want to add the new DC. In the context menu of the development configuration’s compartment, choose Create New DC...

       3.      In the dialog that appears, specify:

                            a.      The name of the vendor of the DC.

                            b.      The name of the DC. For more information about names, see Naming.

You cannot change the name of the DC at a later time.

       4.      Choose Next.

       5.      Make the settings depending on the selected component type. In most cases, you can simply accept the proposed settings.

       6.      Choose Finish.

Changes in the Design Time Repository

Creating a new component triggers changes in the DTR. Unless the DC is local, you must now add the created files to an activity. For a new component, create a new activity.

A window showing open activities appears:

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       1.      Enter name and description of the new activity.

       2.      Select the created activity and confirm with OK.

You can now work with the new DC.

For an overview of the files in this activity, switch to the Open Activities view. While you are editing the DC, the development environment automatically recognizes changed, deleted or newly added files and folders and asks you whether to assign them to an activity.

If you do not want to add certain changes to an activity or if you want to include a local component in the development infrastructure at a later time, you need detailed knowledge of which files and folders are actually submitted to version control and which exist only on the local file system.

You should not submit any files to version control that are stored in folders named bin or have a name starting with gen.

Result

After a successful central build in the Component Build Service (CBS), the DC is automatically displayed in the Active DCs mode.