How to: Deploy Cubes in a Business Intelligence Project

Dynamics AX 2009

Microsoft Dynamics AX cubes are deployed and processed using Visual Studio Business Intelligence (BI) projects generated by Microsoft Dynamics AX. To generate a BI project for Visual Studio, see How to: Generate a Business Intelligence Project. This topic describes how to deploy a BI project generated in Microsoft Dynamics AX using Visual Studio.

Deploying a BI project creates the defined objects in an instance of Analysis Services. Processing the objects in an instance of Analysis Services extracts and then maps data from the data sources defined in the project into the cube objects. After the cube and dimensions are processed, you can view the data for the objects in the BI project.

To deploy a cube in a Visual Studio Business Intelligence project

  1. In Visual Studio, open the BI project that you want to deploy.

  2. In Solution Explorer, right-click the BI project, and then click Properties. The project Property Pages window opens. In the left pane, click Deployment, and then in the right pane, enter the deployment target group settings.

  3. Click OK to save the property changes.

  4. In Solution Explorer, right-click the BI project, and then click Deploy.

Visual Studio builds and then deploys the BI project to the specified instance of Analysis Services by using a deployment script. The progress of the deployment is displayed in two windows: the Output window and the Deployment Progress window. The Output window displays the overall progress of the deployment. The Deployment Progress window displays the detail about each step taken during deployment. For more information, see SQL Server Analysis Services (SQL Server 2005 Books Online).

After the project is deployed, you can view the data in the project.

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