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I am trying to develop a GAT infrastructure for other developers to create GAT tools without having to know all the details of GAT. Is there a way to execute code when they select "File|New|Project|Guidance Pacakges|Guidance Package Development" (basically, customize the solution that GAT creates for you to develop a GAT tool)?

I'd just like to make it easier for my teammates to develop their own GAT tools for use by the dev team we all support. Anyone else run into this or have thoughts on an easy way to wrap GAT behind a nice user-friendly set of APIs?

GAT is powerful, just not very user friendly (at this point) IMO. Shouldn't we be trying to get away from editing configuration XML files?

Thanks!

dwj

Okay. I have done more digging and when GAT is installed, it creates templates, etc that are customised based on the answers provided in the wizard. This is starting point for your GAT solution. So, now I am trying to find the best place to extend this low level infrastructure to customize that original solution.

Has anyone done this yet? What is the best place to hook in my additional functionality?

Thanks!

dwj

The so called Guidance Package Development Solution is just another package that provides recipes and templates that make sense for package development. You could create your own custom one as any other package.

What are you looking for specifically?

Daniel Cazzulino [Solutions Architect MVP]

kzu

I am trying to find a way for my team members to easily integrate their custom widgets into a single GAT package installer that we, as the architecture team, can deliver to the dev team to help them with some configuration tasks that can be tedious.

Does that make sense?

dwj

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