About the Application Package wizard

The Application Package Wizard helps you package in a product rule the classes, rules, and data that make up an application. A product rule is an instance of the Rule-Application-Product class (and so sometimes is called a RAP). V6.1Sp2

Don't confuse the Application Package wizard (described here) with the Package Work wizard, which creates a product rule containing work objects, assignments, history, and attachments. For that wizard, see About the Package Work wizard.

The wizard lets you review data instances associated with the application, and to manually remove any that you do not want to include in the Contents tab of the product rule. When the product rule is complete, you can run it to export a zip file, or use the rule to migrate the product to another system.

The wizard generates a product rule with the same name as the application it contains. You can reuse the product rule for future exports or migrations of the application.

By default, the product rule created by the Application Packaging Wizard contains instances of the following data classes that form part of the application you are packaging:

User

Database

The wizard does not gather those data instances (if any) that your application may use from many other classes, so you may want to add them explicitly. See Modify, Export, or Migrate Product.

Starting the wizard

To start the wizard, select > Application > Import & Export > Package. The first form of the wizard ('Select Application') appears.