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System Setup

This page covers the first step in KX Control: creating the package that holds the entities you build in this tutorial series.

Entity view vs. Package view

KX Control lets you view your system in two ways:

  • Package view — entities are arranged by the package they belong to.
  • Entity view — entities are arranged by type across the whole system.

Package vs. Entity View

Both views are useful, but this tutorial uses Package view exclusively.

Create a package

Packages organize your system and make it portable. Everything you build in this tutorial will live inside a single package called airTelPackage.

Steps:

  1. In the tree, click the Package radio button to switch to Package view.
  2. Right-click the tree and select New > Package.

  3. In the new dialog box:

    1. Enter airTelPackage as the package name.
    2. Select the base directory; for example, /path/to/kxinstall/packages.
    3. Enter the custom directory, airTelPackage.
    4. Click Add.

  4. Check that the package appears in the tree.

Why packages?

Once everything is inside a package, you can export it from one KX Control system and import it into another with a single action.

Next step

Proceed to Schema and Infrastructure to define your data schema and configure the core infrastructure processes.