Tutorial: Create Method Content

Exercise: Adding Your Plug-in to the Configuration View

The goal of this exercise is to include the plug-in created earlier in a configuration.

Before your new elements can be seen in the Configuration View, you need to first add your new plug-in to a configuration. We'll add the new plug-in to a copy of the OpenUP Basic configuration and see the results in the Configuration View.

  1. Switch to the Browsing perspective. Try to find your new content in the Configuration View panel. For example look for My Design Roleset. You shouldn't see it.

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  2. Switch to the Authoring perspective and then click Configurations at the bottom of the tree display.

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  3. Make a copy of the OpenUP Basic configuration. Right-click on the OpenUP Basic configuration, select Copy, then right-click on the Configurations folder and click Paste. Name the new configuration "My Basic Configuration".

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  4. Double-click on the My Basic Configuration configuration to open the Configuration Editor.

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  5. Click on the Plug-in and Package Selection tab.

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  6. Add My Plug-in to the configuration by checking the box next to it in the Configuration Components field. If you expand My Plug-in you will see that the full contents of the plug-in have been selected. You may see some errors in the Configuration Error Log view. You can click through these errors or ignore them for now.

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  7. Close the editor and save the changes.

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  8. Change the current configuration to My Basic Configuration in the configuration selection box in the Composer toolbar just below the main menu bar.

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  9. Switch to the Browsing perspective and now look for your content in the Configuration View. You should now see My Design Roleset . You should also see your new Work Products in the Uncategorized folder under Domains.

 

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