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davidswain2005 NO[at]SPAM yahoo.co.uk
3/2/2006 8:53:17 AM
Does Report Services 2005 have a Report Distribution engine. So that I
can for instance say; I want user 'A' to get report 'B' in a format of
'C' at 17:05 every day.


Many thanks

David
KimB
3/2/2006 9:05:30 AM
Yes, it's called creating a subscription

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Bruce L-C [MVP]
3/2/2006 11:02:34 AM
Yes, it is called Subscriptions. You can specify all of that. It is
available both Standard and Enterprise. However, Enterprise adds data driven
subscriptions.

Here is from books online about data driven subscriptions:
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A data-driven subscription provides a way to deliver reports to a list of
subscribers that is determined at run time. You can use data-driven
subscriptions as follows:

a.. Customize report output at run time for each recipient of a delivery.


b.. Support the wide distribution of a report with a fluctuating list of
subscribers. For example, you can use data-driven subscriptions to
distribute a report throughout a large organization where subscribers vary
from one month to the next, or use other criteria that determines group
membership from an existing set of users.


A data-driven subscription differs from a standard subscription in the way
it gets subscription information. A data-driven subscription gets some
settings from a data source at run time, and other settings from the
subscription definition. Fixed aspects of a data-driven subscription include
the report that is delivered, the delivery extension, connection information
to an external data source that contains subscriber data, and a query that
retrieves subscription information. Dynamic settings of the subscription are
obtained from the query, including a subscriber list and user-specific
delivery extension preferences or parameter values. This data is retrieved
from a data source each time the subscription is processed.

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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services



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