Labelling and creating queries in informatica

Informatica components i.e. mappings,session,workflows,transformation are moved from one environment to another environment say from development to SIT can be done in various ways such as
--Export the xml's and again import the xml's in the respective environment
--Drag and Drop objects from one repository to another repository
For the above process to be done you should have required access across environments.

One other way is labelling the components and then creating queries in repository manager. Using these queries components are moved across environment's

We need to go to the repository manager and select the version tab and select label

Then click new label and give a name say "Wf Migration" and click OK. There we  have permissions tab where we can give access to other users to use the same label.

Now we need to select the workflow which needs to be promoted to higher environment.  Right click on workflow and select "view dependencies"

and select all children ,all parents options. Upon which  a window will open with all the components depended on that workflow.

Select all the components and then right click and select  label option and click apply label and select our label "Wf Migration". This is if we want all the components to be migrated, suppose if we made a change only in a particular transformation say in a filter transformation, then select only filter transformation and do the above process.Now labelling is completed.

PS: Note down the count of  no. of components labelled under the label

Queries are used to identify the labelled components we need go tool options in repository manager and then click queries

Give query a name in here we have options under query conditions such as folder name,label,check in time,business name etc. we need to select label option and in there we need to select our label and then save it.

We have execute option i.e.a blue right arrow upon executing the query it will return all the components under the specified label. The count of the no of components under the query result should be equal to label count which we noted down earlier.

These queries are used to migrate the components using migration tools. Each query can have multiple labels.

Hope this article helps you in understanding the labelling & queries concept