Transporting PI objects with NWDS (using CTS+) for Beginners

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For beginners in PI, it’s always been a challenge to get to know the PI objects transport mechanism. This drove me to write a simple blog for beginners to get to know how to attach PI developments to transports.

Note: PI version being used is 7.31 with IFLOWS and CTS+ as transport strategy

1. Open NWDS process integration perspective and open CTS Organizer as shown below

2. Provide the logon information

3. Let us start by creating a transport request

4. Give the description and check “Preselect Request”

5. First we will get the ESR developments assigned to this request. Open ESR, select the development namespace, right click and select Export

6. Make sure the mode is selected as “Transport Using CTS” and then click continue. If this option is not appearing report to BASIS

7. In this screen select the namespace (all objects under this namespace will be transported). Click continue

8. In this screen the request we created should automatically appear since we preselected this request. Click on continue

9. All objects transported will be shown in this screen and click on finish to complete the export of ESR objects. Please do remember to attach any dependent objects also to this request by following the same process as above

10. Next, let us attach the IFLOW to the request. Navigate to the Export PI objects screen as shown below

11. Select transport type as CTS+ and Object type as Integration Flows. Click on next

12. Select the integration flow that needs to be assigned to transport

13. In this screen, all objects of the integration flow are shown. If any of the common components used across integration flows are already transported as per-requisite transport, please unselect them now. Click on next

14. Give the Export Description and click on finish to complete the export

15. All exports will be shown under the Object List tab of the transport request

16. Once the above process is done, please release the transport from CTS Organizer and inform BASIS to import to the target system. (Before importing to target system make sure the PI administrator would have maintained the required transport system targets in SLD)

17. Once we log in to the target system we can see that ESR objects are automatically activated and integration flow will be in the change list. We need to update the channel properties and activate