Components tab

The Components tab displays the component organization of the installation package.

An installation package can have components, subcomponents, and shared components. You can create a component, subcomponent, or shared component and then drag files and directories into it. Subcomponents and shared components are subordinate to components. Shared components are useful for files that are included in more than one component.

You can organize the installation package into components to make it possible for the customer who installs the package to select portions of the DataBlade® module in the Select Components to Install screen. For example, if your DataBlade module includes examples, you can create a component of the DataBlade module called Examples and then create subcomponents for each example. Then customers can choose which examples to install with the DataBlade module. Shared components do not appear in the Select Components to Install screen; they are installed if the component to which they belong is installed.

However, you can also ship your DataBlade module as a single component that contains all of the files. You do not have to organize your installation package into subcomponents and shared components.