Analysis Services Role created via AMO has unknown problem.

Hi,

This is a wierd problem so I hope I can explain the situation clearly

I'm creating a single role via AMO for an Analysis Services database and adding domain users to the role just fine. When our 3rd party reporting tool tries to create a report an error gets generated and they bubble back the error shown below.

Now here is the wierd part...if I simply view the Role in SQL Server Managment Management Studio and click OK the problem goes away. If I click Cancel when viewing the Role the problem persists. Obviously when I click "OK" in the Role dialog some sort of save routine is going on and fixes whatever problem is present.

I'm creating the role using standard MSDN examples and everything looks in order. Any suggestions on how I can better track down what the problem is?

System.Exception: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. at System.RuntimeMethodHandle._InvokeMethodFast(Object target, Object[] arguments, SignatureStruct& sig, MethodAttributes methodAttributes, RuntimeTypeHandle typeOwner) at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethodFast(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, MethodAttributes methodAttributes, RuntimeTypeHandle typeOwner) at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks) at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture) Thanks

Could you post the code you use to generate the role? I'll compare it to some code we have that is working. My first guess is there is probably something not quite right in the permissions.

Bryan

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To see what is different (between the role create with AMO and the role fixed by the dialog), you can do this:

- re-create the role with AMO

- connect with 'SQL Management Studio' and script the Create or Alter operation of the role (right click on the role and there should be the 'Script' option)

- run the role dialog, press 'OK'

- script again and compare with the previous script

Adrian Dumitrascu