Documentation for the details of schemas is included in the "docs" directory of the Workbench installation.

1. Have a JDBC driver JAR for your database installed in the workbench under the "drivers" directory of the Workbench installation.
2. Define and test a database connection to your data warehouse.
3. Review the structure of your data warehouse with the JDBC Explorer.
4. Create a schema in the Schema Explorer, selecting your database connection.
   • Add schema elements with context sensitive popup menus
   • Drop downs show relevant values from the database and schema
   • Syntax problems are highlighted
5. Test the schema against the database from the schema editor.
6. Open the MDX Query window and generate default MDX queries.
7. Run and save MDX queries.
8. In the Mondrian service, configure the database connection, OLAP schema, Mondrian connection and OLAP Views.

• Additional Validation: simple, syntax level validity, test against the underlying database and run of test queries
• Use of multiple database connections, and association of connections to OLAP schemas
• Selection of database schemas for connections
• Save and load of files of MDX queries
• Generation of default MDX queries, based on schema definitions
• Upgrade to support Mondrian 3.2.0, including all schema elements
• Display of database column types to help editing
• Scalable access of database metadata, for responsiveness