I inherited an SSRS server that was not using best practices; each report had it's own custom data source, and each report had a seperate custom data source for the subscriptions.I'm trying to clean up that mess, and use shared data sources everywhere.I'm a little bit confused on a data driven subscription;at the bottom of this way below screen, a [b]username and a password are required[/b], on a per subscription basis, and i'm confused as to why.this article here: has the following quote:[url]http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/data-driven-subscription-in-ssrs-2008-r2.html[/url][quote]On the fourth step of the wizard, you need to specify delivery extension settings for the delivery mode you chose on the second step. You can specify different values for report execution, which will either come from the database or be static values; for example in the case of file share more, you can specify path, file name, extension, write mode and user name/password (either to come from database or to specify the static value) to be used by report server to put the file at the specified location:[/quote]as I read that, i'm telling it the credentials of a user that has access to the disk/folders? and I'm storing it on a per-report basis? that just screams wrong to me, as my knee jerk reaction is it should not be required, or that it should be inherited from some account at the server level, and not on a per-report basis. credentials expire, unless I create a special user, and I don't want to do that. can I just put in a default N/A value and blast past it?The existing set up was using a specific user, and that just feels wrong.I've got a subscription,and i created a shared data source to point to a Subscribers table.my suite of subscription tables current do not have columns for username / password on a per report basis.can anyone point out if those credentials are even relevant? what does your typical set up contain? do you store credentials per-report like that?[img]http://www.databasejournal.com/imagesvr_ce/2351/Data%20Driven%20Subscriptionimage006.jpg[/img]
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