On 22 Jun, 17:16, Reeves Smith <ReevesSm...@discussions.microsoft.com>
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> That was the only thing that I had no clue on.
>
> One other thing, I do not think that the data source has anything to do with
> the creation of the subscription.
>
> Compare who the anonymous account (Maybe: IUSR_COMPUTERNAME) rights to you
> login into Management Studio.
>
> Reeves
>
> "forty6a...@hotmail.co.uk" wrote:
> > On 22 Jun, 15:55, Reeves Smith <ReevesSm...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Just guessing but could it be the account you are signing into Mangement
> > > Studio vs the account you are using accessing the web site (Report Manager).
>
> > > Reeves
>
> > > "forty6a...@hotmail.co.uk" wrote:
> > > > Hi
>
> > > > I have a strange problem with creating subscriptions for my reports. I
> > > > can create them in Report Manager, but when I right click the
> > > > subscriptions folder in the report in Mangement Studio, "New
> > > > Subscription" is greyed out. The data source uses stored credentials.
> > > > To further add to the confusion, one report DOES allow me to create
> > > > subscriptions in Management Studio, and this uses the same data source
> > > > as the others which don't allow subscriptions.
>
> > > > Any ideas what could be causing this?
>
> > This is what we thought too, since we are using an anonymoust account
> > to connect to the Reports Server and in Management Studio we connect
> > to the Server using Windows Authentication. However, this doesn't
> > explain why for one report we are able to create subscriptions in
> > SSMS, and for others we cannot, even though they are using the same
> > data source.
Thanks for the help Reeves. We discovered what the problem was. We had
a field on the reports displaying the name of the user who ran the
report (from the the global variable User). This was preventing us
from creating a subscription to the reports. Once we removed it, we
could create subscriptions to them.