About Packages

A Package in Intent Architect is a file system folder containing a .pkg.config file and various subfolders with .xml files for persistence of metadata modeled in Intent Architect Designers.

Designers can reference any number of Packages and Packages can reference other Packages.

In the example in the picture above, the Eventing Designer has two Packages, Application.Eventing and Application.Eventing.Messages, and Application.Eventing has a reference to the Application.Eventing.Messages Package.

Creating new or adding existing Packages to a designer

To create a new Package or add an existing Package to a Designer use the Create new package and Add existing package buttons on the Designer toolbar:

When "adding an existing package" a Designer reference is created which is referring relatively to the chosen path and the actual Package content itself is not copied. If the added Package is in a folder outside of the source code management (e.g. Git) repository for the Application, it may make more sense to first copy it to the default packages location.

Default Package locations

By default, Package folders are placed in the Intent.Metadata/<designer-name> folder which is relative to an application's .application.config file. One can easily open an Application's .application.config file's containing folder by clicking the path link beneath the Application's name on the Application Settings screen of the application: