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Prerequisites

  • You have selected the correct development configuration in the Development Infrastructure perspective of SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.

  • You have created and activated activities.

Context

Once the development has reached a phase in which it makes sense to send the changes to the central transport system, you can release the activities for transport using the Transport view. Note that what you see in the Transport view upon release depends on the way the administrator has set up the development configuration. The type of the transport (activity or DC) and the transport system (CMS or CM Services - CTS) is set upon the creation of the development configuration. You either see only activities (for more information, see Activity Transport in CM Services) or also the deployable DCs (for more information, see Activity-Based SDA Transports in CM Services) that are possibly changed by these activities. For more information, see Landscape Patterns for Transport Types .

Procedure


  1. In the Transport view, select the node of the workspace whose activities you want to release.

  2. Expand the Waiting node. Under the <default> change request, you see the list of activities you have selected.

  3. Select the activities that you want to release.

  4. Open the context menu and choose Release . The Release for Transport dialog box appears.

    This dialog box shows you the following information:

    • Change Request Caption

      In this field, you can enter a caption for the change request. This caption will then appear later in the import queue of the CMS. The names of the selected activities are given as a default caption.

    • Predecessors Check

      Here, you see the result of the check for existing predecessor activities. Predecessor activities share their source code with the selected activities. The changes made in the predecessor activities are older than the changes made in the selected activities. The predecessor relationships are displayed in a hierarchy structure. For consistency, the predecessors are always released automatically at the same time.

    • Activity Details

      Here, you can display and check the content of the activities you want to release. To display an activity, you must select it in the Predecessors Check field.

  5. Choose Release .

    Note

    If the predecessor check results in predecessor activities also being released, the label of the release button changes to Release with all predecessors .

Results

You have packed one or more activities in a change request and released them for transport. Depending on what happens after they are released, the activities appear either under the Released node or Failed node in the Transport view.