Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Getting Started

Creating a new product and modules

To help organize the objects in your application, particularly for deployment, Progress Dynamics supports a hierarchy of Products and Product Modules. Using this hierarchy helps you organize and more easily locate your components. The products and product modules can describe any useful type of organization for your application. You must assign all dynamic application objects to a product module. For more information on using products and product modules, see the chapter on preparing to build application objects in OpenEdge Development: Progress Dynamics Basic Development .

To define a DynSports Product and its Product Modules:

From the AppBuilder main window, choose Tools Administration. A separate Administration window appears:



The Administration window provides access to tools for configuring and maintaining your application development environment. The tools include functions such as application structure, deployment, security, localization, and entity control. You will use some of these later in the tutorial.

Choose Application Product Control. The Product Control window appears:



Choose the Add button . The Product Maintenance dialog box appears:



Set the following values in the Product Maintenance dialog box, and leave the default settings in the other fields:

Field	Value
Product code	DynSports
Production description	Progress Dynamics sample app
Product installed	Selected

Choose the Save button . The dialog box should look like this:



Choose the Product Module tab, and choose the Add button .
Set the following values on the tab:

Field	Value
Product module code	ds-OE
Production module description	Order Entry module
Product module installed	Selected
Number of users	0
Relative path	modules/oe

The Relative Path directory is the subdirectory under your working directory where the framework saves physical objects such as static viewers, browses, and SDOs.

Choose the Save button. The dialog box should look like this:



Follow the procedure in Step 6 through Step 8 to add the following Product Modules to the DynSports product. Remember to select the Product module installed toggle box for all the modules:

Product module code	Description	Relative path
ds-EMP	Employee and Department information	modules/emp
ds-Entity	DynSports entity and datafield info	modules/entity
ds-General	Objects used across the sample app	modules/general

Choose the Product Module List tab to see your modules. Then, exit the Product Maintenance and Product Control windows.