Deployment

Overview

The Deployment page defines and runs a deployment package for the active AnalyticsCreator repository. Use it to name the deployment, choose the output directory, decide which database, package, BI, and OLAP artifacts should be generated, and monitor the deployment log while the run is active.

Function

The page starts with the deployment Name and Directory. The directory field supports the {LOGIN} alias, so each repository user can route generated files into a user-specific output path.

The Options tab groups the deployment settings into data-warehouse, SSIS, other-file, tabular OLAP, and multidimensional OLAP sections. These sections control whether AnalyticsCreator creates a DACPAC, deploys it to a database, generates SSIS or Azure Data Factory packages, creates Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik outputs, and prepares OLAP deployment scripts.

The package grid lets you select which generated packages are included for SSIS and ADF2. Selecting a workflow package can also select the referenced child packages, so a deployment can be prepared as a complete workflow instead of as isolated package files.

Save validates the deployment name, output directory, database connection details, deployment target settings, and package configuration choices. Deploy saves the current definition, switches to the Log tab, runs the deployment generation, and writes progress messages into the deployment log. Interrupt cancels an active deployment run.

Access

Open the page from the Deployments node in the navigation tree, from the Deployment toolbar, or by double-clicking a deployment row in the Deployments list page. Use Add deployment, New, or Edit/Run deployment depending on whether you are creating a new deployment or maintaining an existing one.

How to access

Data warehouse -> Deployments -> Add deployment, List deployments, or [deployment] -> Edit/Run deployment.

Toolbar

Deployment -> Deployment package.

Diagram

Not opened directly from the diagram. Use the Deployments node or the Deployment toolbar.

Visual element

Deployment page and Deployments list page

Screen overview

ID Property Description
1NameRequired deployment name shown in deployment lists and navigation entries.
2DirectoryOutput folder for generated deployment files. The folder picker button can be used to select a path.
3OptionsMain configuration tab for database, package, BI, and OLAP deployment settings.
4Data warehouseControls DACPAC creation, object-group filtering, database compatibility, target database connection, and database deployment behavior.
5Create DACPACGenerates a database deployment package for the selected repository objects.
6Object GroupLimits the deployment to one object group, or keeps all groups selected for a full deployment.
7Database connectionDefines the target database with either a manual connection string or server, database, authentication, login, and password fields.
8Deployment safety optionsIncludes allow data loss, drop objects not in source, back up database before changes, block when drift is detected, single-user deployment mode, incompatible-platform allowance, and test-case deployment.
9Allow using separate databases to store layersEnables layer-specific deployment variables and disables direct DACPAC deployment from this page.
10SSIS settingsControls how package connection settings are stored: none, environment variable, configuration file, package parameter, or project parameter.
11Project referenceEnables project-reference behavior for deployments that use the Integration Services catalog.
12Package compatibility levelSelects the SQL Server package version used for generated SSIS output.
13Environment variable, config file path, or parameter nameChanges label and behavior based on the selected package-configuration mode.
14Other filesSelects optional Power BI project, Tableau model, and Qlik script output.
15Tabular OLAP deploymentConfigures XMLA generation, server, database, credentials, service-account options, cube processing, cube creation, compatibility level, star selection, connector name, model name, perspectives, and partitions for tabular models.
16Multidimensional OLAP deploymentConfigures XMLA generation, server, database, credentials, service-account options, cube processing, cube creation, compatibility level, perspectives, and partitions for multidimensional models.
17Package selection gridLists generated packages with SSIS and ADF2 selection columns plus package name, package type, and description.
18SQLCMD VariablesShows deployment variables and editable values used to parameterize generated database scripts and package output.
19Layer variablesMaps repository layers to variable names when layer data is stored in separate databases.
20LogDisplays deployment progress messages after a deployment run starts.
21DeploySaves the deployment definition, starts generation, and writes status messages to the log.
22InterruptCancels the active deployment run when generation is in progress.
23SaveValidates and stores the deployment definition.
24CancelCloses the page without continuing the current edit.

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