Data from Analyst to Contributor: Best Practices

[abernabr]

Hello,
Any thoughts on best practice of getting data that I have either manually entered or imported into the analyst model over to the contributor side?

I have found that using a d-link from the cube in analyst to the desired cube in contributor to work, but manuals imply that there are different ways of populating the contributor (d-links, copy-> load-> prepare-> prepare data blocks, and Administration Links)

Any thoughts on the best way? Is there another way that I am missing?

Thanks again!

Brian

[sascha]

Best way for

• manual entries in Analyst: dLink Analyst->Contributor
• database values: fill IM Tables and prepare
• BI values: admin link from FM model or fill IM Tables and prepare
• flat text files: copy, load, prepare

[abernabr]

Thanks for confirming what I had suspected.