How to: Build and Deploy an Analysis Services Project

When you are working with an Analysis Services project, you must build and deploy the project to an Analysis Services instance to instantiate the objects.

Build Procedures

To build an Analysis Services project

  1. Open the Analysis Services project in Business Intelligence Development Studio.

  2. If the solution that contains the project has multiple projects, click the project or one of its objects in Solution Explorer.

  3. On the Build menu, click Build <project name> or, in Solution Explorer, right-click the project and then click Build.

To build all of the projects in a solution

  1. Open the Analysis Services solution in Business Intelligence Development Studio.

  2. On the Build menu, click Build <project name> or, in Solution Explorer, right-click the solution and then click Build Solution.

To rebuild an Analysis Services project

  1. Open the Analysis Services project in Business Intelligence Development Studio.

  2. If the solution that contains the project has multiple projects, click the project or one of its objects in Solution Explorer.

  3. In Solution Explorer, right-click the project and then click Rebuild.

To rebuild all of the projects in a solution

  1. Open the Analysis Services solution in Business Intelligence Development Studio.

  2. In Solution Explorer, right-click the solution and then click Rebuild Solution.

To build or rebuild selected projects in a solution

  1. Open the Analysis Services solution in Business Intelligence Development Studio.

  2. In Solution Explorer, right-click the solution and then click Batch Build.

  3. In the Batch Build dialog box, select the check box for each project that you want to build or rebuild, and then click Build or Rebuild.

Deploy Procedures

To deploy an Analysis Services project

  1. Open the Analysis Services project in Business Intelligence Development Studio.

  2. If the solution that contains the project has multiple projects, click the project or one of its objects in Solution Explorer.

  3. On the Build menu, click Deploy <project name> or, in Solution Explorer, right-click the project and then click Deploy.

To deploy all of the projects in a solution

  1. Open the Analysis Services solution in Business Intelligence Development Studio.

  2. On the Build menu, click Deploy <project name> or, in Solution Explorer, right-click the solution and then click Deploy Solution.

Note

If you are working with an Analysis Services project in Business Intelligence Development Studio and you attempt to process a database object, you will be prompted to build and deploy the project if Business Intelligence Development Studio detects any changes to the project since the last deployment.