Is it possible to "Activate Anyway" in ADT?

[GuyF]

Hi All,

I have a code which I copied from a customer system to a Developer Edition system, in order to upload it to GitHub. There are some missing objects in the Developer Edition system and therefore I am getting syntax errors, but that is irrelevant, since I know this code is correct and is working.

In the "old" SE80 editor we could just choose to "Activate Anyway", but I could not find an option to do so in ADT. Am I missing something, or is this functionality simply not included?
I think that I was able to activate a code with syntax errors in ADT once, but I'm not sure, and in any case I do not remember how I did it.

Thank you.

[Florian]

A solution would be to open the object with gui and then activate it.

As this is something which is really not a common task I'm not sure if there will be this option on the roadmap.

If you want to have it on your fingertips, you could create it as a report for example with function

'REPS_OBJECT_ACTIVATE'

and if you want to be more common... you could create an extension for ADT and put it in the marketplace 🙂

[GuyF]

Hi Florian,

Thank you for your response. It is not what I wanted to hear, but better to hear that it is not possible then receive incorrect information :-).

I think I will just open the object in SAP GUI and activate if I need, rather than develop an extension. The fact that I don't know how to develop such an extension is only part of the reason for that :-).

[Florian]

Hi Guy,

if that's the only problem you can have a look here:

https://blogs.sap.com/2014/08/27/creating-a-abap-in-eclipse-plug-in-using-the-adt-sdk/

[ThFiedler]

Hi Guy,

please go into the preferences page of Eclipse and unmark the first check box "Always run in background". Then you will get a popup during activation if you want to activate with syntax-errors.

Regards,

Thomas.

[GuyF]

Thank you Thomas.

I think that I willl keep this option disabled, except when I need to activate regardless of syntax errors. I have to admit that I am also relieved to know that I did not imagine this option before :-).

[ThFiedler]

Hi Guy,

you can also use the "Progress" View in Eclipse. Here you will see this entry after activation with syntax-errors. I think that's the better option here.

Regards,

Thomas.

[GuyF]

Thanks. I think that this is probably what I saw, since I did not change the settings you mentioned above.