Installing SSAS and Preparing for Cube Development - Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development - page 39

Hands-on steps for configuring your
cube project
To configure the cube project for deployment follow the given steps:
1. Click on the Properties button in the Server Explorer window.
2. Under Build , specify that you are targeting a Developer Edition deployment
server.
3. Under Deployment , set the target server as follows: local-
host\multidimensional .
4. Click on OK.
5. Save the project.
6. Go to the Build menu and choose to deploy the project; this will send a series
of commands to the Analysis Services instance that you have specified under
the Target | Server .
7. Open up Management Studio and connect to the Analysis Services instance
that you used as the target server.
8. Click on the Databases folder and make sure that you have an Analysis Ser-
vices database called FirstCube on your server.
Now we have configured the development environment for project mode develop-
ment. There is another way that you can develop as well, and that is in online mode.
This is something that is rarely used, but it can sometimes be useful when you just
would like to make a small change to a calculation in a cube without deploying the
entire project to the server. To use the online mode, you go into the File menu and
choose to open an Analysis Services database. For the remainder of this topic, we
will use the project development mode.