hello widget example Missing manifest statement

Dirk_Schuermann

After building + deploying the hello widget example it didn't show up in Perspective Manager. Engineering identified the issue: the build process does not create a manifest statement.

Workaround for now (assuming that the name of the extension project is "greetings" / "greet":)

Open the file "greet-all.js" in ".../src/bundles" and add the corresponding line manually:

define([
// add public files for this module here

// Application widgets
'greet/widgets/hello/hello.view',
'json!greet/widgets/hello/hello.manifest.json'
], {});

 

Ferdinand Prantl

I strongly suggest, that everyone, who generates a new extension project, chooses a different module name and prefix from "greetings" and "greet".

1. If you wanted to do it later, you'll have to make a lot of changes by error-prone find & replace steps.
2. You will not be able to deploy the greetings module next to your new module because of the name or prefix conflict.

If you intend to save time, when copying some SDK sample to you project, because most of them have the "greet" prefix, I encourage you to do the renaming step.  You should prefer it to learn, what the code does by brief reading it.