Start Creating a Mule Application from an Existing One (Flow Designer)
There are two ways that you can start creating a Mule application from an existing one:
Clone an existing project
You can base a new Mule-application project on one an existing one. Your new project includes almost everything that is in the existing project, even any custom data types and sample data that are defined in that project.
Procedure
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Select an existing Mule-application project in the list of projects in Design Center.
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Click the Clone icon, which looks like this:
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Name your new project.
Result
Flow Designer opens the new project. Red circles indicate that you need to provide authentication information, so that Flow Designer can connect to the systems that the cards represent. Click an entry in the Reusable Configurations list in the Project pane, which is on the left side of the canvas. Flow Designer opens the configuration and displays a red border on either side of each field that requires information from you.
Another way of finding these fields is to click the Problems tab in the bottom-right corner of the Flow Designer screen to open the Problems pane. When you click an entry in the pane, Flow Designer displays the field that corresponds to it.
Import an existing project
You can import a Mule-application project that was exported from Flow Designer by using the Download source option. This feature supports two different scenarios:
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Importing a project that was exported from a different environment within a single organization
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Importing a project that was exported from an environment that is in a different organization
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An exported project does not include items that the project linked to in its original location. An imported project does not include drivers or other types of library that the project included its original location. If an imported project contains any connectors that require libraries, you must open those connectors and set up the required libraries. For example, if the project contains a Database connector, the database driver for that connector is not included in the exported project. After you import the project, you must open the Database connector, browse to the location of the database driver, and select it. For example, if an imported project contains a Database connector, the database driver for that connector is not included in the project. You must open the Database connector and set up the driver. |
Procedure
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To import a project from a JAR file, your account must have permissions to create Mule applications. If you do not have this permission, the option to import a jar file is not available in the Import from File dialog. |
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On the Projects page of Design Center, click the Create new button and then click Import from File.
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Specify a name to give to the imported project.
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Click Choose file, then browse your filesystem for the JAR file that contains the project.
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Click Import and Create project.
Result
Flow Designer opens the new project.
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If one or more connectors, components, or modules referenced by the project are custom-developed and not available in your environment, then the import fails with a message like this one: Unable to resolve dependency 2bacbe78-4300-965a-39fce81ee15d:mule-plugin-americanflights:jar:mule-plugin:1.0.0 Where 2bacbe78-4300-965a-39fce81ee15d is the Maven groupI for the artifact Mule-plugin-americanflights is the Maven artifact ID jar is the type of the Maven artifact mule-plugin is the classifier of the Maven artifact 1.0.0 is the version of the Maven artifact. If you see such an error, ask the owner of the asset to publish it to Exchange by using Maven. |