Summary
As the number of universes in your deployment increases, you need to look for ways to simplify maintenance while ensuring consistency for users. Much of this can be implemented through design practices in which you have a common universe of shared elements that other designers can import.
As you develop universes and reports, you also need to establish development and test environments. Promotion Management can facilitate this via BIAR files, also allowing you to integrate changes with third-party version control software. An alternative, less robust approach is to use test folders.
When you have multiple designers modifying the same universe, the IDT offers project synchronization, which provides a check-in/check-out capability to tell ...
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