Transport organiser - doubts?

Question

In the transport organizer, i see a tree of all the transports in the system. one says Modifiable and the other released. Under Modifiable tab, i see many request numbers and the user name and beneath each request number, i see several other request number with other user id's too. And under that request number i see many components. Some of them relevant and some others non-relevant ones.
When i need to transport all the development to the QA system, do i need to the select the request number beneath the Modifiable tab and release it. Or do i need goto Transport connection tab in workbench and collect all the required objects.
which way would be more accurate and appropriate?
And some of the items i installed were in local object too .. do i need to manually change them to the development class or the system does that?
And when i want to transport an infocube, will that collect all the necessary objects? Will it collect the queries attached to it too?
Any pointers, documentation and directions would be helpful and appreciated. Something more like a cookbook would be really helpful.
Thanks in Advance,
Mav.

Answer 1

maverick,
the transport organizer, while it will most likely not make much sense, contains all modifications done to the system that are assigned a proper package, and hence, possess its own transport request number/s. let me try to answer your questions:
- when you need to transport from dev to QA, the MOST accurate would be to, of course, recollect. but it's not a good practice to do always since you're potentially retransporting things that aren't meant to be changed anymore, or yet. say for example, you have one infocube that has two update rules, where both have been modified, and one has been cleared for production use, and the other not. in the case of transporting the request number (assuming you have one transport request number for each update rule), you're ensured that only the changes that have been made will be transported. BUT if you decide to recollect for transport, the changes on those update rules may or may not be for release yet.
- yes, you need to manually change the development class from $TMP to your system. you can use SE03 for that.
- depends on the manner of collection you use.
i don't have any documentation, but help.sap.com is always a good place to start.
ryan.