To make certain SSIS features work there are many properties that need to be set over and over for most containers in the package. For example with Checkpoint\Restart, you need to set (in most cases) all of the tasks' FailPackageOnFailure to True. If you miss one, the package may not restart properly and you might never know. There are other situations where as a development team we want certain properties to be usually set the same but differently from the SSIS default.
Is there a way to control the defaults that the SSIS IDE uses?
I remember back in classic VB that if you wanted to change the defaults of a bare form you could create a template form adjusted the way you like and put it in a templates folder. Then new forms added to a project would be based on the template form.
No worries. The same thing exists for SSIS:
SSIS: Location for your package templates
(http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2005/11/12/2380.aspx)
It won't allow you to set default properties of tasks though - which I think is what you are after.
-Jamie
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Yes, I was hoping to set defaults for packages and tasks. Any recommendations? Our DTS developers are balking at the multitude of properties needed to be set to implement certain features.
What do you name the templates that you put in the templates folder so that they are used in the IDE? Package1.dtsx?
Thanks.
|||Chopaka wrote:
Yes, I was hoping to set defaults for packages and tasks. Any recommendations? Our DTS developers are balking at the multitude of properties needed to be set to implement certain features.
Sorry, that's not possible. It would be nice if it were though - perhaps you could suggest it at Microsoft Connect.
Whenever they build the ability to reuse pre-configured tasks then you will be able to do it. I wouldn't expect that until v3 at the earliest though.
What do you name the templates that you put in the templates folder so that they are used in the IDE? Package1.dtsx?
Whatever you like!
-Jamie
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