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Setting up an Analytics Multiuser Development Environment

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When developers check out projects, the Administration Tool automatically copies and overwrites files in the background. Therefore, it is important for you to perform setup tasks and for the developers to perform check-out procedures carefully, paying close attention to the messages that appear.

To prepare for multiuser development, you need to perform the following tasks:

• Identify or create a shared network directory that will be dedicated to multiuser development.
• Copy the your repository file to that directory where it will be used as your source repository for multiuser development.

  NOTE:  In this section, we use the phrase source repository to refer to this copy of a repository in the multiuser development directory.

• Create the projects that your developers need in the multiuser source repository.

Setting Up the Shared Network Directory

The administrator needs to identify or create a shared network directory and copy the appropriate repository files to that location as described in the following list:

• Create a shared network directory that will be used only for multiuser development for the source repository. This directory typically contains copies of repositories that need to be maintained by multiple developers. Developers create a pointer to this directory when they set up the Administration Tool on their machines.

  CAUTION:  The administrator must set up a shared network directory that is dedicated to multiuser development. If not set up and used as specified, repository files can be unintentionally overwritten and repository data can be lost.

• Make a copy of the appropriate repository files and paste them in the directory that you have dedicated to multiuser development. This copy (source repository for multiuser development) will be downloaded by the developers who will make changes and then merge these changes back into the source repository.

Creating Projects for a Multiuser Development Environment

After the Administrator copies a repository to the shared network directory, the Administrator needs to create distinct projects in the source repository in the shared network directory.

A project is a defined subset of metadata in the source repository. When creating a project, the administrator selects a Presentation Catalog or a subset of logical fact tables related to the selected Presentation Catalog, and the Administration Tool automatically adds any Business Model and Physical layer objects that are related. An object can be part of multiple projects. After you create projects, they become part of the metadata and are available to multiple developers who need to perform development tasks on the same source repository. When defined this way, projects become a consistent repository after a developer checks out the projects and saves them as a new repository file.

NOTE:  Only one person at a time can create projects in a source repository.

To create a project for a multiuser development environment

1. In the Administration Tool menu, choose File > Open > Offline.
2. In the Open dialog box, select a source repository that you copied to the multiuser development directory, and then click OK.
3. In the Administration Tool menu, choose Manage > Projects.
4. In the Project Manager dialog box, in the right panel, right-click and then select New Project.
5. Perform one of the following steps to finish creating the project:
   • In the Project dialog box, select one or more logical fact tables within the business model that are related to the presentation catalog and then click Add.
   • In the Project dialog box, select a presentation catalog and then click Add.

     The Administration Tool automatically adds all the logical fact tables.

6. To remove any fact table from the project, in the right pane, select the fact table and click Remove.
7. Add any Groups, Users, Variables, or Initialization Blocks needed for the project.
8. Type a name for the project.
9. Click OK.

After you create all projects, you can notify developers that the multiuser development environment is ready to use.

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