Setting up the Format Editor

The Format Editor provides a wizard to create the default editor configuration file and the definition XML file used by the CHA Formatter Service and formatters components. Use the wizard to customize the Format Editor for each project.

Note: A Format Editor's configuration file needs a corresponding CHA Editor's configuration file to display the CHA Data view and CHA view for the Format Editor. Therefore, before you set up the Format Editor, make sure the CHA Editor's configuration file (the .chae file) already exists in one of your WebSphere(R) Studio Application Developer project.
To set up the Format Editor for a project, do the following:
  1. Create a simple project to contain the Format Editor files.
  2. From the File menu, select File > New > Other.
  3. In the dialog box, select IBM Branch Transformation Toolkit in the left panel.
  4. In the right panel, select Format Editor file.
  5. Click Next. This starts the Format Editor Configuration Wizard.
  6. Select the project that contains the CHA Editor's configuration file. This project will also contain the Format Editor's configuration file that you are creating.
  7. In the file name field, type the name of the Format Editor's configuration file. The file must have the .fmte extension.
  8. Click Next.
  9. From the left panel, select the entity that contains the CHA Editor's configuration file. Then from the right panel, select the CHA Editor's configuration file that you'll use with the Format Editor.
  10. Click Finish.

The wizard then creates the configuration file and the dsefmt.xml file in the project folder. It then starts the Format Editor.