Steve,

Thanks again for your help - you are a star!

Couple of questions, forgive me, I'm still learning.

If I copy and paste all of the above into the SQL pane to create a view I get a couple of messages back:

First I got "The Query Designer does not support the USE ReportServer SQL construct." If I OK that I get "Line 1: Incorrect syntax near 'GO'"

So I experimented and took out the "USE ReportServer
GO" bit. I got another message saying SQL does not support the CASE construct - I've seen this before, I think, so ignored it. It returned the 8 fileds of data - yay! (I thought...)

However, when I go to save my view I get "View definition includes no output columns or no items in the FROM clause". Bummer. So I fiddled a bit, putting "dbo." in front of all the from bits (as you had this in your previous statement). Still no luck... I notice that no daigram of tables links is created like in the previous example - presume this is related to the error message.

Can you (or anyone) spare the time to help a bit more? Thanks again!

Paul.

Hey Paul,

You might want to try creating the view within Query Analyser, saves you from the graphical designer errors.  The first error was raised because the graphical designer doesn't require the USE DATABASE statement - you've already specified the DB because you were in one and selected 'create new view'.  The second error is as you guessed - the graphical designer doesn't support case statements graphically but it doesn't stop you from using them - you just don't get a 'picture' ofyour query (ie the tables and the joins aren't shown like in a straight select).

THe last error is strange, every column has an alias in the query i posted, so i'm not sure how/where the columns lost their aliases.  You may want to take the entire script and paste it into query analyser.  To create the view, between tthe USE DATABASE ... GO statement and the start of the select, add the create view statement like CREATE VIEW vwMySnazzyView AS

so a short version of creating the view to give you an idea of the entire structure read s like ->
use database ReportServer
go
create view mySnazzyView AS
select top 5 * from ReportSchedule

I humbly submit this link to my article. This is one methiod that allows you to name and manage your subscriptions, as well as adding the ability to have Data Driven subscriptions.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/jselburg/2824.asp