make manual snapshots without default parameters set - how?

It seems like it is only possible to make a snapshot if I set default
values to all parameters. What I want to do is:
- The user generates a report manually after entering some parameters
- The user can decide to save this report as a snapshot by pressing on
the "New Snapshot" button
Is it right that there seems to be no way of doing this? (I'm talking
about the standard Web UI, no self-programmed web service or anything)
Thanks for any help
UrsHi,
check the linked report feature.
Elisabeth
"Urs Eichmann" wrote:
> It seems like it is only possible to make a snapshot if I set default
> values to all parameters. What I want to do is:
> - The user generates a report manually after entering some parameters
> - The user can decide to save this report as a snapshot by pressing on
> the "New Snapshot" button
> Is it right that there seems to be no way of doing this? (I'm talking
> about the standard Web UI, no self-programmed web service or anything)
> Thanks for any help
> Urs
>
>|||That's what I already do, but if I don't set all the parameters to a
default value in the linked report, I cannot make a snapshot.
Urs
Elisabeth wrote:
> Hi,
> check the linked report feature.
> Elisabeth
> "Urs Eichmann" wrote:
>
>>It seems like it is only possible to make a snapshot if I set default
>>values to all parameters. What I want to do is:
>>- The user generates a report manually after entering some parameters
>>- The user can decide to save this report as a snapshot by pressing on
>>the "New Snapshot" button
>>Is it right that there seems to be no way of doing this? (I'm talking
>>about the standard Web UI, no self-programmed web service or anything)
>>Thanks for any help
>>Urs
>>

Maintenance Plans and corresponding Jobs

SQL Server 2005: Creating a maintenance plan generates a job. Two
questions:
1. If I change the job instead of the maintenance plan, will the maintenance
plan break? And/or is there a way to get the job and maintenance plan out
of sycnh?
2. SQL Server 2000 generaetd cryptic command lines when creating maintenance
plans. Worse yet, error messages were nasty and tough to debug. Has this
been improved in 2005?
Thanks,
MarkMark,
In some ways it is better. If you make significant changes to the job and
then go and make a change in the maintenance plan some of those job changes
will be deleted.
If you add extra steps then these will all disappear. It would also depend
on the build that created the maintenance plan/job and the build that you
change them with if they were created before SP2 post builds.
Chris
"Mark" <mark@.idonotlikespam.com> wrote in message
news:uGjNQ4jnIHA.1204@.TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> SQL Server 2005: Creating a maintenance plan generates a job. Two
> questions:
> 1. If I change the job instead of the maintenance plan, will the
> maintenance plan break? And/or is there a way to get the job and
> maintenance plan out of sycnh?
> 2. SQL Server 2000 generaetd cryptic command lines when creating
> maintenance plans. Worse yet, error messages were nasty and tough to
> debug. Has this been improved in 2005?
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

Maintenance Plans and corresponding Jobs

SQL Server 2005: Creating a maintenance plan generates a job. Two
questions:
1. If I change the job instead of the maintenance plan, will the maintenance
plan break? And/or is there a way to get the job and maintenance plan out
of sycnh?
2. SQL Server 2000 generaetd cryptic command lines when creating maintenance
plans. Worse yet, error messages were nasty and tough to debug. Has this
been improved in 2005?
Thanks,
Mark
Mark,
In some ways it is better. If you make significant changes to the job and
then go and make a change in the maintenance plan some of those job changes
will be deleted.
If you add extra steps then these will all disappear. It would also depend
on the build that created the maintenance plan/job and the build that you
change them with if they were created before SP2 post builds.
Chris
"Mark" <mark@.idonotlikespam.com> wrote in message
news:uGjNQ4jnIHA.1204@.TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> SQL Server 2005: Creating a maintenance plan generates a job. Two
> questions:
> 1. If I change the job instead of the maintenance plan, will the
> maintenance plan break? And/or is there a way to get the job and
> maintenance plan out of sycnh?
> 2. SQL Server 2000 generaetd cryptic command lines when creating
> maintenance plans. Worse yet, error messages were nasty and tough to
> debug. Has this been improved in 2005?
> Thanks,
> Mark
>