Before starting the development of the application transactions, there is an environment configuration task that should be run by the technical developers. This task includes the configuration of the different core components (global settings) and the definition of the basic components that will be shared during the transaction development process ( context structure, context common data, new data types, reusable operations and formatters, common services, …). All this information is stored in the file btt.xml that is the configuration file for all the BTT components within a specific BTT Project, but this file can only be accessed and edited by the technical developers using the Deployment Descriptor Editor, a graphical editor to enable you to build the btt.xml file rapidly. For a functional developer, all these common and reusable components defined in the BTT xml definition files are available in the Definitions folder of each BTT Project in the BTT Project Explorer. From there you have access to the defined common contexts, formats, operations, services and types, as well as to the data dictionary, a list of names of the data elements being used by the predefined set of common BTT components. This list of components can then be complemented with any other BTT component that you may need for your transactions development and are added to the Definitions folder at project level. A functional developer is normally expected to add only new data and formatters to these common definitions.
Right-clicking on any of the children folders of the Definitions folder and selecting the option Open, the Transaction editor opens showing the specific creation wizard. The same occurs when double-clicking on any of the folders. This is the only action that is allowed for these folders. Follow the links for a details description of the definition of contexts, formats, operation, services, types and data using the Transaction editor.
No actions are associated to this folder neither in the Menu Bar nor in the Tool Bar.