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Chapter 4: Deploy Cubes and Reports
The cube or report is published to the NewsBox specified in the Upfront NewsBox for Cubes
or Upfront NewsBox for Reports box (Publishing). This setting is made at the folder level.
Notes
• Upfront NewsItems are links to the data, so there is no need to republish if the data source is
updated.
• Cubes and reports published from PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration become
linked items in Upfront. They can be deleted by an Upfront administrator, but the objects
remain in PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration.
• If you publish a folder to Upfront, only the cubes and reports contained in that folder appear
in Upfront. The folder will not appear in Upfront. A folder hierarchy that you have created in
PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration is not maintained when you publish the folder
to Upfront.
• In a multiple server environment, if a report or a cube is to be published, you must ensure that
the report or cube resides in a folder mapped to a shared drive using the Mount At option.
For more information, see "Mount At" (p. 28).
Maintaining Properties When Saving Reports to Upfront
Reports that are saved to Upfront are stored in an imported_reports folder on the PowerPlay
Enterprise Server dispatcher computer. The first time a user saves a report, the Imported Reports
folder is created on the computer and is displayed in PowerPlay Enterprise - Server
Administration. In the imported_reports folder, reports appear under a folder named for the cube.
For example, the outdoors cube was added to PowerPlay Enterprise - Server Administration in the
sales cubes folder:
A user opens the outdoors cube, and saves a report to Upfront. While the report is available from
Upfront, it is actually saved to the PowerPlay server.
On the PowerPlay server, the imported_reports folder is created and contains a sales cubes folder,
a folder named for the cube, and the report with a generated name (in this case, named 44_433):
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