Update Projects with New Objects

When you create or modify an object in your development environment, you eventually need to copy that object to the test project, and later to the production project.

For example, a developer creates a new metric in the development project. Once the metric is ready to be tested, it needs to be present in the test project. You could re-create the metric in the test project based on the same specifications, but it can be easy to miss an important setting in the metric. A quicker and more reliable method is to use MicroStrategy Object Manager to migrate the new metric from the development project to the test project. Then, when the metric is ready to be rolled out to your users, you can use Object Manager again to migrate it from the test project to the production project.

MicroStrategy has the following tools available for updating the objects in a project:

• Object Manager migrates a few objects at a time. For information about Object Manager, see Copy Objects Between Projects: Object Manager.
• An update package migrates a previously specified group of objects. Update packages are part of Object Manager. For information about update packages, see Copy Objects in a Batch: Update Packages.
• Project Merge migrates all the objects in a project at once. For information about Project Merge, see Merge Projects to Synchronize Objects.

For a comparison of these tools, see Compare Project Merge to Object Manager.