In a Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge project, you can exclude or include compilable resources (like p, cls, or htm) from your project build. Exclude from Build excludes the selected resources from the build and Include in Build includes the resources that were excluded from the build previously. You can access these options from the context menu of the resource or from the Source tab of the Build properties page.
The excluded resources entries are saved to the Excluded node on the Source tab, and only the entries that are present under the Source tab are considered for building. The Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge compiler checks the exclusion entries before compiling a file. Once a file is excluded, then the r-code of that file is deleted. If the earlier excluded file is now included, then the respective file is compiled and the corresponding r-code for it is created. The project is compiled (r-code is generated) only when the relative path of the project being included does not match with any other resource relative path, which is at the top of order on Source tab.
For new projects created in the Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge 11.0, the project ROOT node is explicitly added to the Source tab by default. A new node Excluded is added to the project ROOT on the Source tab. In releases prior to 11.0, the Source tab contained no entries by default even though the project root is included in the build implicitly. When an older version project is opened with Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge 11.0, note the following:
If the project does not contain any directories under the Source tab, the project ROOT node is added under the Source tab by default. A warning message appears in the Problems view as Project root is added under the source tab. Only the entries under the source tab are built.
If the project contain folders under the source tab, no project ROOT is added. A warning appears in the Problems view as only the entries under the Source tab are built.
Note: The warning message displays only the first time a project created in a release prior to 11.0 is opened with 11.0. The warning message is removed from the Problems view, when you add or modify entries in the Source tab of the Build properties page.
When you remove the ROOT node or last existing node from the Source tab, a warning message appears as Removing all entries from the Source tab results in no resources being built. Do you want to continue?. Only the entries that appear under ROOT node on the Source tab gets built automatically. However, you can manually compile the files in your project.
If the project does not contain any directories under the Source tab, the project ROOT node is added under the Source tab by default. A warning message appears in the Problems view as Project root is added under the source tab. Only the entries under the source tab are built.