1. Introduction
2. Feature
3. Installing and Setting up CET Developer
4. Classification of Features
   • 1. Workspace View
     • Workspace Types
     • Creating and Editing a Workspace
   • 2. Source Control Tools
   • 3. CET Tools
   • 4. Developer Tools
   • 5. Workspace Tools
5. Setup

Introduction

CET Developer is a collection of primary CET development tools that strings together all the functions that a developer or quality assurance analyst would require when developing and/or testing.

CET Developer includes:

• Operator
  The main window of CET Developer that shows all the workspaces and buttons to all the other tools within CET Developer
  
  
• Build Central
  Tool for building. uploading, and publishing extensions.
  
  
• Test Assistant
  Helps find crashes and other problems by running CET in auto-pilot mode.
  
  
• Extra Tools
  Bug Report Viewer, Translation Tool, COP Debugger, etc.

It hinds all the underlying complexity, and presents the user with an intuitive interface to help make the development process a lot more efficient and enjoyable.

This article briefly covers the various features and software that CET Developer comes bundled together with.

Feature

Installing and Setting up CET Developer

You can perform the following steps to have CET Developer up and running within minutes:

1. Download CET Developer in the Downloads page in MyConfigura.
2. Read all terms of use, and check I agree to checkbox
3. Click on Download and Install All. CET Developer will then proceed with downloading and installing all the required programs.
4. Input your MyConfigura account e-mail and password.
5. Click on Log in.
6. Set your GitLab server.
7. Input your GitLab account username and password.
8. Click on Log in.
9. Click on Continue.

Classification of Features

The software is well-divided into several distinct categories as shown in the screenshot below. Items in sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 are dependent on the selected workspace in section 1, meaning each workspace can have its own set of settings.

1. Workspace View
2. Source Control Tools
3. CET Tools
4. Developer Tools
5. Workspace Tools

1. Workspace View

A workspace essentially is a local copy of files and folders retrieved from the server. You can make changes to the files in your workspace, run some tests on it and then decide if your changes should be submitted to the server or not. It's quite common to have more than one workspace set-up on CET Developer.

Workspace Types

Creating and Editing a Workspace

To create a regular workspace, perform the following steps:

1. In Operator, click Add Workspace at the bottom left.
2. Select base branch/version
3. Select which custom folder to include.
4. (Optional) In Workspace Name box, you can type in a name that you would associate to the workspace. This is particularly useful if you need to have more than one workspace of the same version. (e.g. if your workspace is "user-machine-version11.0” and you want to create a separate one for releases, you can set the suffix to “release” and the name will be “user-machine-version11.0-release”.)
   
5. (Optional) You can change the default location of workspace by picking a local folder under the Local Repo Cache tab. Default is set to C:\CetDev.
   
6. Click Save.

A build workspace is created the same way as a regular workspace, but with the inclusion of checking the Use for Build checkbox which is found in the workspace creator. A required name-suffix “_build” will be automatically added to the workspace as opposed to a regular workspace.

2. Source Control Tools

It is, of course, necessary to have a good system in place to facilitate version control. At Configura, our preferred version control software is GitLab, which is closely tied to workspaces in CET Developer. File changes in workspaces are tracked and handled by CET Developer.

3. CET Tools

The CET tools tab allows the user to set the version of CET (32-bit/64-bit), launch CET, repair their workspace, and also quickly access file paths that are relevant to the selected workspace.

4. Developer Tools

This section consists of a collection of great software that you will find yourself using very frequently throughout the development cycle. 

Emacs

Emacs is an advanced, highly-configurable text-editor. The emacs software that is bundled together with CET Developer has been configured to work seamlessly with Configura Magic (CM). You can further customise Emacs to suit your workflow. Clicking on the Emacs icon will start an instance of emacs for the selected workspace. It is possible to have multiple emacs instances running for different workspaces. For example, you could have one for 10.5 and another for 11.0 running at the same time. Switch to Visual Emacs Mode - If you are not a fan of Emacs shortcuts, and would like to use more Windows-esque shortcuts, you can give Visual Emacs a shot. It comes with a set of graphical elements that you can interact with to run certain commands, unlike the regular version of Emacs. Start new Emacs instance - Multiple Emacs instances can also be launched for the same workspace by clicking on “Start new Emacs instance”. Emacs settings - Launches the Emacs settings dialog, in which you can configure your font types, font sizes, window split options, files to open on load and so on. You can also write your own Emacs shortcuts, and have them added to the list of additional keybindings here.

Command Prompt

Starts a cmd-window for the selected workspace. In the same way as for the “Launch Emacs”-command, it works by setting up workspace-specific environment-variables (CM_HOME etc) for the specific process. This eliminates the need for setting the global environment variables and allows working with different workspaces simultaneously as the different processes have different sets of environment variables. This launches it with Administrator rights which will allow you to access files that requires access permissions.

5. Workspace Tools

Setup

In your Oprator Environment Setup, make sure you are logged into MyConfigura and set your Git and Jira server.