Creation of the References to the Cubes

First of all you need to enter the information about the cubes. Go to the “Cubes” tab:

This list contains the information about cubes. In fact they are not cubes but rather pointers to the cubes. These pointers are needed for the reports: the reports are «bound» not to the physical cubes, but to the pointers. The list is empty yet. Select menu item “Cubes / New Cube”. You will get a form for entering the information about new cube:

Enter the server name and press the «Connect» button. If the server name and the version were entered correctly, you will receive a message:

Important! Connection is established between the server, where the application server is installed (but not the computer, where the client program works) and the Analysis Services server. The Windows account, under which the application server is working, must be included in the Windows groups “Administrators” and “OLAP Administrators” on the computer with MS Analysis Services.

After this you can select the values of the fields “Database” and “Cube”:

Press the button «Save». The cube will appear in the list:

Thus, we created the pointer to the cube. Remember, the reports in our system are «bound» not to the physical cube, but to this pointer.