Creating Data-Driven Subscriptions

A data-driven subscription is a subscription that delivers the same report to many destinations, each of which might receive a different render format of the report and a different set of parameter values on a recurring basis. The recurrence of a subscription can be defined by a schedule or by the creation of a report snapshot. As you learned in Chapter 10, a report snapshot can be created manually or on a schedule.

You must be assigned to the Content Manager role to configure a data-driven subscription. You must also have a relational table that stores the mapping between destinations (an e-mail address or a file share), report settings, and parameter values. When you configure the data-driven subscription, you ...

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