Fileshare Data Driven subscription - Setting up report manager fil

I am trying set up a data driven subscription that will render reports as
PDFs to specific folders in Report Manager. I have setup a fileshare to which
I am pushing reports, but I am having trouble relating specific Report
Manager folders to the fileshares and there is little documentation about
this. Is there a simple way to push PDFs to Report Manager folders via
fileshare subscriptions?
Also, on a data driven subscription, I am setting up the table that will
read the specifications for the data driven subscription. How do a refer to
the PDF rendering method in the table - as "PDF" or " Adobe (PDF) file" or
something else? Also, what is the bit I should use to increment the file if
it already exists? The documentation on data driven subsciptions is really
not adequate to answer these questions.Incidentally, this question relates to Reporting Services 2005
"Mark" wrote:
> I am trying set up a data driven subscription that will render reports as
> PDFs to specific folders in Report Manager. I have setup a fileshare to which
> I am pushing reports, but I am having trouble relating specific Report
> Manager folders to the fileshares and there is little documentation about
> this. Is there a simple way to push PDFs to Report Manager folders via
> fileshare subscriptions?
> Also, on a data driven subscription, I am setting up the table that will
> read the specifications for the data driven subscription. How do a refer to
> the PDF rendering method in the table - as "PDF" or " Adobe (PDF) file" or
> something else? Also, what is the bit I should use to increment the file if
> it already exists? The documentation on data driven subsciptions is really
> not adequate to answer these questions.
>|||Hi Mark,
Not sure I understand third question, but you must provide a different
FileName paramter to the DDS for each report. Whatever logic you want.
Answer to second question is: PDF
As to the first question - I don't think that is possible. DDS can
output to fileshares, but the folders and files in those folders in RM
are controlledby the RS catalog and not accessible outside RM.
As a quick test, I uploaded a PDF file using RM and then searched the
RS Server for the pdf and it was not found. (So RS must be storing it
away somewhere on the server in a secured spot).
Are you sure you really want to do that anyway? The folders may get a
little crowded if you start storing PDF's there. You can, as another
option, store data with the report by using Snapshots.
If you do find a solution for stroing PDF's though, please post it!!
As a workaround, maybe|||Matt - Regarding your last comment, can I arrange the snapshots for the
reports into different folders? My understanding is that you can create a new
snapshot under the history tab for each report, but you cannot move the
history "snapshots" to other folders. Or can you?
"Matt" wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> Not sure I understand third question, but you must provide a different
> FileName paramter to the DDS for each report. Whatever logic you want.
>
> Answer to second question is: PDF
> As to the first question - I don't think that is possible. DDS can
> output to fileshares, but the folders and files in those folders in RM
> are controlledby the RS catalog and not accessible outside RM.
> As a quick test, I uploaded a PDF file using RM and then searched the
> RS Server for the pdf and it was not found. (So RS must be storing it
> away somewhere on the server in a secured spot).
> Are you sure you really want to do that anyway? The folders may get a
> little crowded if you start storing PDF's there. You can, as another
> option, store data with the report by using Snapshots.
> If you do find a solution for stroing PDF's though, please post it!!
> As a workaround, maybe
>