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Use

Portal transport packages can be added to the SAP NetWeaver Developer Infrastructure as transport development components, enabling you to automate the deployment of portal content.

Each transport package is represented by one transport development component. The build of a transport development component produces an .sda file; when deployed, this .sda file imports content into the portal.

Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with the NWDI environment

Procedure

  1. In SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, create a development component of type Start of the navigation path Enterprise Portal Next navigation step Portal Content End of the navigation path.

  2. In the Resource perspective, choose Update EPA from the development component project.

  3. In the Open File dialog box, select the transport package ( .epa file) to add to the development component, and choose Finish .

    The files are added to the development component. For each portal object, one folder is added in the src folder, as in the following example:

  4. Check in, activate, and release the development component files. More information: Using DTR as Development Repository .

    The development component can now be built and deployed.

Updating the Development Component

You can update the development component with an updated version of the .epa file by repeating Steps 2-4.

When updating the development component, the following occurs:

  • All new objects in the updated .epa file are added to the development component and are checked out (for add).

  • All objects in the development component that are also in the updated .epa , and that were modified, are overwritten and are checked out (for edit).

  • All objects in the development component that are not in the updated .epa are deleted and are checked out (for delete).