Projects and Environments

Projects and Environments

Create a project

To create a new project click the Add a new project button.

This button opens the following dialog:

Table 1. Project Properties
Property	Description	Variables Supported	Mandatory	Default
Name	The project name	Yes	No
Home folder	The folder where the project is located	Yes	No
Configuration file (relative path)	The folder where the project’s configuration json is located.	Yes	Yes
Parent project to inherit from	The project to inherit metadata (e.g. connections) from	Yes	No	default
Description	A description for this environment	No	No
Company	The company this environment belongs to	No	No
Department	The department this environment is created for	No	No
Metadata base folder	The folder where this environment’s metadata will be stored	Yes	Yes	${PROJECT_HOME}/metadata
Unit test base path	The folder where this environment’s unit tests will be stored	Yes	Yes	${PROJECT_HOME}
Data Sets CSV Folder	The folder where this environment’s data files will be stored	Yes	Yes	${PROJECT_HOME}/datasets
Enforce execution in project home	Give an error when trying to execute a pipeline or workflow which is not located in the environment home directory or in a sub-directory	Yes	Yes	checked
Project variables to set	A list of variable names, values and variable descriptions to use with this project	No	Yes

After creating a project the user interface will switch to it and ask if you want to create an environment.

Create an environment

To create a new environment click the Add a new environment button.

This button opens the following dialogue:

Table 2. Environment Properties
Property	Description	Variables Supported	Mandatory	Default
Name	The environment name	No	No	The last created project
Purpose	The purpose of this environment. A purpose is an indication of the environment type. You can add your own purposes in addition to the predefined ones: Development Testing Acceptance Production Continuous integration Common build …	No	No
Project	The project to which this environment belongs	No	No	The last created project
Configuration files	Files to use as configuration for this environment	No	No

Each environment will contain one or more environment files where you manage environment-specific variables.

The edit button opens the environment file and lets you add variable key-value pairs.

After creating an environment the user interface will switch to it.

Switch between projects and environments

To switch between projects the projects list can be used from the main Hop Gui toolbar.

After switching to a project the environments list will be updated to the environments which belong to this project. All open files will be restored, including their zoom level and other UI settings.