Opening an existing business object definition from Business Object Designer Express

Once you open Business Object Designer Express, you can open object definitions stored in a file. If Business Object Designer Express is running from System Manager, you can also open business object definitions stored in an Integration Component Library.

This section describes:

Opening a business object definition from a project

If Business Object Designer Express is already open, you can do the following to open a business object definition from a project.

Note:
If Business Object Designer Express is running from System Manager, the project is an ICL-based project. Otherwise, the project is a local project, which contains only business object definitions you have imported into it. See Working with projects for more information about projects in Business Object Designer Express.
  1. From the list of business object definitions in the project, highlight the name of the definition you want to open.

  2. To select multiple business object definitions in the project, do one of the following:
  3. After selecting the definitions to be opened, right-click and then click Open.

    Business Object Designer Express displays a window for each selected definition.

Opening a definition from a file

To open a business object definition that is stored in a local directory, do the following:

  1. From the File menu, select Open From File.

    The Import dialog displays. The dialog defaults to filter files of type XML Schema Definition (with a .xsd extension). You can also select a different file type from the Files of type drop-down menu or you can select all file types.

  2. In the Import dialog, browse until you locate the file, select it, and click Open. Figure 24 illustrates this dialog.
    Note:
    If Business Object is not running from System Manager, the To Project field, which lets you specify the ICL-based project to receive the imported business object definition is omitted from the dialog. Instead, the business object definition is imported into your local project.

    Figure 24. Import Business Objects dialog.


If the Open the imported business objects checkbox is checked then Business Object Designer Express also opens the business object definition for editing. Otherwise, the business object definition is imported into the project but not opened for editing. For more information, see "Working with business object definitions".

Preventing duplicate definition names

Business Object Designer Express does not allow you to have two business objects with the same name in the same project, which might occur in either of the following situations:

Preventing duplicate names when a definition with the same name already exists in your project

If you attempt to open a definition from a file and your local or ICL-based project already contains a definition with the same name, Business Object Designer Express displays the Import Results dialog illustrated in Figure 25.

Figure 25. Preventing duplicate names: Keep Local or Import.


In the Import Results dialog, do the following for each business object definition listed as having a duplicate name:

  1. Click the Action entry for the definition and select an action from the drop-down list. An explanation of each action is provided below.
  2. If you selected Keep Import/Rename Local or Keep Local/Rename Import, enter the new name for the business object definition in the Name column as shown in Figure 25.

Alternatively, you can use "Select All BO Action as:" to specify either of two actions for every business object definition listed as a duplicate name. To overwrite all the business object definitions in your project with the definitions you are importing, select Overwrite Local. To refrain from importing the business object definitions that have duplicate names, select Don't Import.

The Actions drop-down list in the Import Results dialog provides the following options:

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