Chapter 2: Setup Tasks
Create New App
The first task of the application is to create the new application. Either navigate to the “Applications” page and click the “Add New Application” button, or click the option directly from the menu.
Applications in the IDE Menu | The button to add a new application from the “Applications” IDE page |
- Name: VOB
- Description: Vendor On-Boarding (VOB)
- Leave all others at their default
Add New Application Widget filled out to add VOB
Once the application is added, it may take a few minutes to be created. You will need to wait until it is created to click into it and add the rest of the sources.
My Apps showing the new VOB App
Once it is finished being created, click into the new app.
The App Label in the IDE site header once clicked into the new app
Project Management Details
Job, Tasks, and the Project in the Developer Workbench
The project job is the holder for tasks which are the same tasks we outlined in the previous section. Those tasks will be completed in a project and move through the promotion path together and be released to PD at the same time. A Project can contain many tasks.
We will be creating the following project management details:
- Job: VOB Development
- Task: Database Changes
- Project: Create VOB App
Create a Job
In the IDE menu, under “Project Management”, click “Add New Job”. You also can navigate to “Job List” and click the button on the page to create a new job.
Create the Job with the below Name and Description:
Job Name: VOB Development
Job Description: VOB Development
Create a Task
Either from the “Project Management” section of the IDE menu or from the “Developer Workbench” page, click to “Add New Task”. Note that you can navigate to the Developer Workbench from either the IDE menu or clicking the menu icon shortcut.
IDE Header Menu with Developer Workbench shortcut
Add the task with the below information:
- Name: Database Changes
- Description: Create Vendors table to hold Vendor information.
- Job: VOB Development
- Type: Feature
- Assigned To: you
Create a Project
From the “Developer Workbench” page, click the “+” to add a new project.
The Project drop down selector and button to add a new project from the “Developer Workbench” page
Select the Primary Task from the drop down. It will only show you the tasks that are assigned to your development user. Select the Database Changes task and it will prefill the rest of the form based on that selection.
“Add Projet” widget opened from the “Developer Workbench”. The Primary Task drop down is expanded to show the only task in the job which is assigned to the current user.
“Add Projet” widget opened from the “Developer Workbench”. The form has been prefilled based on the primary task selection.
We will need to change the project since we intend for it to have multiple tasks. Change the name to the below.
Name: Create VOB App
The Project in the Developer Workbench IDE page once it has been created and selected