Application set management in BPC

Hi Experts,
I am looking for information about application set management. Please share information about how to create application and application set.
Thanks.

Hi,
The first step is copying appshell to a new appset. Once you create a new application set, you will have 2 applications already available in it. You can either copy them to create new applications or you can create them from scratch. Please refer to the below links from help.sap for more details:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bpc75_nw/helpdata/en/74/194f58325d4d9399cc41acb04f4cd6/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bpc75_nw/helpdata/en/6c/0d215236ee47b2a40ee62e881f5807/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bpc75_nw/helpdata/en/e4/6b496ad1684c97be55325082b5e93d/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bpc75_nw/helpdata/en/65/84d6596224477d80cc8a4392e4c114/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bpc75_nw/helpdata/en/01/a7e059f56847eea751fb0fd28f07f3/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bpc75_nw/helpdata/en/97/a99d939fb14bdab9d1ac7f2b43525e/content.htm
Hope this helps.

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