Working with Projects

Project Overview

A project is a collection of Enterprise Miner process flow diagrams and information that pertains to them. Projects are often differentiated by the type of data that you intend to analyze. In other words, it is a good idea to create a separate project for each major data mining problem that you intend to investigate. Local projects are useful when the data is available locally on your machine. If you need to access databases on a remote host or distribute the data-intensive processing to a more powerful remote host, then you should create a client/server project.

Both local projects and client/server projects are shareable; that is, multiple users can work on the same project simultaneously. In order for the project to be shareable, all parties must access the same client files. The server.cfg client file uses the remote server path to point to the server, allowing multiple users to work on the same project on both the client and server side.

Although projects are shareable, only one user can open a diagram at a time. Users can create, edit, and delete diagrams without affecting the work of others who are sharing that project, because each diagram is an independent unit. Node clones and target profiles that were created by one user may be shared by other users for use in their own diagrams.

Updates to the project start-up or exit code, warehouse path, or server profile can be made only when there is one and only one person using the project. To learn about how to update these project settings, see Viewing and Specifying Project Properties. In a shared environment, it may be necessary to request everyone to close that project from within their own Enterprise Miner sessions, while an administrator makes the required changes. The same applies to renaming or deleting a project.

In an Enterprise Miner client/server project, the server profile is stored with the project, and is thus shared by all users of that project. Storing the profile with the project facilitates profile maintenance in a shared project environment.

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