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ABAP Tags Plugin
It’s been a while since my last blog post about an eclipse plugin for ADT. So without further adue I present to you
ABAP Tags
So what are ABAP Tags you ask? I guess everyone is confronted with tags in his/her daily life. Tags are all around us. And now, with this plugin, you can tag any ADT object you want. And the best way is, all your team colleagues can benefit from it.
But if you are more of a selfish person, or maybe don’t want to polute the global Tag “namespace” you can also tag your objects with your own User tags, which are only visible to you :).
How does it work?
Tag Wizard
Can I get an overview of my tags?
Of course. There is an extra view which displays all the User/Global tags of the currently selected project. Here you can create, edit and delete all the tags in the system
The Tags View
As you can see from the screenshot above, there is also the possibility to create tag hierarchies.
I have tagged some objects. Now what?
Now everyone (depending on the kind of tags you used) can access the tagged objects via the ABAP Tags Search which is integrated in the eclipse search dialog (Ctrl+H). You just select one or more tags and trigger the search.
You will see the results in the search result view.
Tag Search
That’s basically it about the feature scope. If you want more information you can also access the eclipse help.
Help about ABAP Tags
Prerequisites for the plugin
To install and use the plugin you first have to do the following 2 steps:
- Install ABAP Development Tools Plugin https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#abap
- Make sure the following abapGit Repository https://github.com/stockbal/abap-tags-backend is installed (minimum NetWeaver version is 7.40)
References
You can install the ABAP Tags feature via the eclipse marketplace (see ABAP Tags | Eclipse Plugins, Bundles and Products – Eclipse Marketplace) or you can install it by using the software site https://eclipse.devepos.com/latest.
I hope you find it useful
Ludwig
Interesting and useful... thank you Ludwig for sharing!
Flavio
Hi Ludwig,
Interesting approach. Like it.
You can think about integrating the Tags into the Repository Trees and in CTRL-SHIFT-A.
Regards,
Thomas.
Hi Ludwig,
the link https://stockbal.github.io/eclipse/rel. is broken, is there a new one?
Hi Sebastien,
it is okay that the link itself does not work if you open it in the browser. It still functions as a valid update site in eclipse if you open the install dialog under Help -> Install New Software
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Ludwig
Thanks for your work! I've added your plugin to the ADT info hub.
Not sure what I am doing wrong but my ADT keeps saying that “GET /devepos/adt/atm/discovery-> 404 Not Found”
Hello Jakub,
sorry for the very late reply. Only recently I stumbled upon the same issue, which only occurs on NW >= 7.55. The automatic registration of the template “/discovery” was removed from the class CL_ADT_DISC_RES_APP_BASE as it is not needed for SAP’s ADT resources, but it is needed for mine :). See https://github.com/stockbal/abap-tags-backend/issues/2
Kind Regards
Ludwig