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4. Import a project.
Import a project (and its associated artifacts) that has been shared by another member of the applicationdevelopment
team.
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Create a Development Workspace [page 39]
A workspace is a local directory that you map to all (or part) of a package hierarchy in the SAP HANA
repository. When you check out a package from the repository, SAP HANA copies the contents of the package
hierarchy to your workspace, where you can work on the files..
Create a New Project [page 40]
Before you can start the application-development workflow, you must create a project, which you use to group
all your application-related artifacts.
Share a Project [page 40]
Before you can start working on files associated with a new project, you must share the project; sharing a
project enables you to track and synchronize local changes with the repository.
Import a Project [page 41]
Before you can start the application-development workflow, you must either create a new project and share it
(with the repository), or import a shared project from the repository into your workspace. Importing a project
enables you to track and synchronize local changes with the colleagues working on the objects in the imported
project.
4.2.1 SAP HANA Repository: Workspaces
The place where you work on project-related objects is called a repository workspace. A workspace is an
environment that maps a local directory to all (or part) of a package hierarchy in the SAP HANA repository.
In SAP HANA studio, the repository tools enable you to view and browse the entire hierarchy of design-time
objects stored in the repository. However, when you checkout a package from the repository, SAP HANA copies
the contents of the package hierarchy to your workspace, where you can work on the files in your local file system.
Note: Before you can create a workspace you must maintain connection information in the SAP HANA
database user store.
To start development work with SAP HANA studio, for example, to checkout the contents of a package, you must
create a repository workspace. The workspace contains a system folder with metadata and package folders for
the repository content. The file-system folders and their subfolders reflect the package hierarchy in the
repository; the repository client ensures that changes are synchronized. You can use SAP HANA studio to
perform the following workspace-related actions in the repository:
● Checkout folders and files from the repository
● Commit changes to the repository
● Activate the committed changes
● Revert inactive changes to the previously saved version
The commit operation detects all changes in packages that you configure SAP HANA studio tool to track and
writes the detected changes back to the repository. The repository client tools also support synchronization with
changes on the server, including conflict detection and merging of change. All workspace-related repository
actions are available as context-sensitive menu options in SAP HANA studio. For example, if you right click a
repository object at the top of the package hierarchy in the Project Explorer in SAP HANA studio, you can commit
and activate all changed objects within the selected hierarchy.
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Note: If you create a new project using SAP HANA studio, you can assign the new project to an existing
workspace.
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