Setting Up Your Environment

You can use the IntelliJ IDEA to create a custom operator for Team Studio. Prepare the development environment to hold your project.

Perform this task in IntelliJ on your development computer.

Prerequisites

You must have installed all required tools and sample operator files for your version.
You must have installed the IntelliJ IDEA to hold your custom operator development project.

Open the PluginTemplateProject in IntelliJ.
Create a package in PluginTemplateProject/src/main/scala to hold your operator code.

Use your company's naming scheme for packages if you have one. We called our package com.mycompany.plugins.
Within the new package, create a Scala file called MyColumnFilter.

Note: No two operators can have the same class path: that is, the same package name + class name. Be sure that you and your team use distinct naming for each operator to avoid conflicts.
Your code should look like this so far:
```
package com.mycompany.plugins
 
class MyColumnFilter {
 
}
```

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