Building the Import Formatter

After you finish the modifications to the example import formatter, build the customized import formatter plug-in. To use the new import formatter, you must move it to Manual Tester.

The example project that you moved from Manual Tester to Eclipse includes an Ant build script that builds the import formatter.

To build the import formatter and move it to Manual Tester:

  1. In the Eclipse Package Explorer view, expand the Example Importer project.
  2. Right-click the plugin.xml file and click PDE Tools > Create Ant Build File to create the Ant script that is used in the build process.
  3. Right click the build.xml file and click Run > Ant Build. Eclipse builds the import formatter plug-in.
  4. Using Microsoft Windows Explorer, create a plug-in folder in the Manual Tester plugins directory. If Manual Tester is installed in the default location, the plugins directory is C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\6.0\ManualTest\eclipse\plugins\.
  5. Copy the plugin.xml file and the example_import.jar file from the Example Importer project to the plug-in folder you created.
Now the new import formatter is ready to run. See Importing Word and Excel Test Documents for more information on running an import formatter.

Parent topic: Creating an Import Formatter

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