Best practices ESR in Eclipse – Part 2: Transport

This is the second blog in a blog series about new capabilities in ESR in Eclipse. If you want to get an overview of all features that have been shipped with SAP Process Orchestration 7.5 SP02, check out the blog Best practices ESR in Eclipse – Part 1: Overview of new capabilities with 7.5 SP02. In the current blog, I will show you how the transport of your design artifacts within your TIER landscape is supported in ESR in Eclipse.

Transport via file

Let’s import new Software Component Versions for an integration scenario with Concur Travel and Expense Management into the ESR.

In the main menu, below entry ESR, you can access all transport relevant tasks. Here, you can either import or export design objects. Transport via file is already supported from 7.31 SP16 on. Choose the ESR –> Transport –> Import Design Objects entry from the main menu.

You can either import from server or client. Here, I have chosen client. Select a directory where your .tpz files are stored, and click on button Next.

On the next screen, all files with suffix tpz are displayed. I can select multiple files, and trigger the import by clicking on button Finish. Btw, this is an improvement compared to the ESR Java WebStart UI where I can only import one file at once.

All files are sequentially imported. Once done, you get a status information. In our case, both files were successfully uploaded. Furthermore, in the Description column, you see how many objects have been imported.

When refreshing the navigation pane, you see that two new SWCVs have been added.

Transport log

After an export or import, you can check the transport log in order to get detailed information about the transport. Choose the ESR –> Transport –> Open Transport Log entry from the main menu to access the log.

This brings up the Transport Log pane showing the list of transports.

Double-clicking on any of the log entries, opens a pop-up with details of the transport. On the Attributes tab, you see the transport meta data.

When switching to tab Transported Objects, you see a list of objects that have been transported.

Transport via CTS+

Using CTS+ as the transport management system, you can govern your transport activities. In the following, I will transport a SWCV using CTS+. Select the SWCV which should be transported, and select the entry Export from the context menu.

In the upcoming dialog, the chosen SWCV and scope All active objects and definitions are already pre-selected. Click on button Next.

On the next screen, select CTS+ from the Transport Type drop down menu, and click on button Finish.

Once the transport has been completed, a message that the items have been successfully exported is displayed. Click on button Close to close the dialog.

You have two options to navigate to the CTS transport organizer in order to manage the transport requests or to release the transports to the target system. Either select ESR –> Transport –> Open CTS Organizer entry from the main menu …

… or open the transport log, and double click on the respective log entry.

In the transport details, you find a link pointing to the corresponding transport request ID. Click on the link.

This brings up the CTS transport organizer whereas the view is already filtered on the right transport request ID. From here you can release the transport request. In our case, the request has been automatically released. You can see that the import is pending.

Next, you need to import your request into the target system within the CTS Transport Management System.

Once done, you can log on to the ESR of the target system. In the transport log you will find a new entry indicating that the import has been successfully carried out.

In the next blog Best practices ESR in Eclipse – Part 3: Release transfer and versioning, I will cover release transfer and version handling. A list of all blogs in the blog series can be accessed from here Best practices ESR in Eclipse – Part 1: Overview of new capabilities with 7.5 SP02.