Copy an ESS DC

Question

Hi all,
I want to make a copy of an standard ESS DC in order to add functionality. I've imported it from my NWDI and I've created a new DC in order to copy this functionality; I've made it through the Navigator of the NWDS, but the copy doesn't work. Sometimes it builds correctly but then the Deploy fails or sometimes the Build fails. This is happening with only the copy of the DC, we've not added anything to the DC.
How can we copy this DC in a better way, exists any other way we can accomplish this? How can we copy a DC into another?
Regards and thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Hi,
       There is no direct method to copy. Only hectic manual copy. Need to do following steps.
1. Create a new DC
2. Copy and paste all Cc, Fc, Vc's one after another into webdynpro section of new DC with new package name of your choice.
3. Goto Navigator view, open gen_wdp ->packages->drill down to WDP directories. Inside this dir. check for no of files with that of old component at the same place. Otherwise copy and paste the missed files from old to new and change package names to new name inside of each file manually.
4. In webdynpro view, do one to one comparision for any missing models, context mappings, used components, used DC's etc.
5. Build and deploy.
All the Best,
Suresh.