Importing and Exporting SAP Build Process Automation Projects

Business Scenario

A colleague of you has created an SAP Build Process Automation project in an own SAP Business Technology Platform Free Tier account. You are asked to use this project as a template for a project that both of you're working on. As you would like to work jointly on the project in your department's SAP Build Process Automation tenant, you need to create a joint project there. Fortunately, there are export and import functionalities available, so you do not need to re-create the project with all its artifacts from scratch. Your colleague just exports the existing project from her Free Tier account, and makes the exported files available to you for importing them into your department's SAP Build Process Automation tenant.

Prerequisites

You need to download the exported SAP Build Process Automation project file.

Exercise options

To carry out this exercise, you can choose from the following options:

Live Environment: Using the instructions provided below, you can perform the steps in your SAP BTP account.
Platform Simulation: Follow the step-by-step instructions within the simulation.
Side-by-side: Follow the step-by-step instructions within the simulation and perform the steps in your SAP BTP account simultaneously.

Note

We strongly recommend to perform the steps in the live environment.

Task 1: Import and Export SAP Build Process Automation Projects

Steps

Import the SAP Build Process Automation project into your tenant.
1. In the SAP Build Lobby, select the Import button right next to the Create button.
2. In the appearing popup, select Browse to browse for the project file to be imported (the one you have downloaded in the Prerequisites section).
3. After you have selected the file, choose Import. Depending on the size of the project, it takes a few seconds until the file is imported.
4. Open the newly imported project ImportExportExercise from the SAP Build Lobby.
  The Project Overview opens, displaying four existing artifacts.
Create a new artifact within the imported project.
Use the following data:
Field Value
Name NewArtifact
1. From the project Overview, select Create to create a new artifact.
2. Select Data Type.
3. In the Create Data Type pop-up, enter NewArtifact as Name.
4. Select Create.
  The Data Type editor opens.
5. As this exercise is supposed to show you that you can extend an imported project with any kind of artifact, you do not need to create any fields within the new Data Type.
Export the enhanced project.
1. Select the SAP logo in the top left to go back to the SAP Build Lobby.
2. For the ImportExportExercise project, select the More Options button.
3. Select Export.
4. In the Select Version dropdown in the pop-up, select Editable Version, and then Export.
  A project file containing all the project’s content will be downloaded to your file system.
(Optional) Reimport the exported project.
1. In the SAP Build Lobby, select the More Options button for the ImportExportExercise project.
2. Select Delete.
  Note: You only need to delete the project for exercise reasons, as it is not possible to have the same project twice within the same SAP Build tenant.
3. Select the Import button next to the Create button.
4. In the appearing popup, select Browse to browse for the project file to be imported (the one you have exported previously).
5. After you have selected the file, choose Import.
  Depending on the size of the project, it takes a few seconds until the file is imported.
6. Open the newly imported project ImportExportExercise from the SAP Build Lobby.
  The Project Overview opens.
7. The displayed artifacts should include the Data Type artifact you created earlier.