Annotations in design mode?

Is there any way to persist Annotations in design mode? I'm considering using them to keep track of measure-group specific state, but I'm worried that every time I re-deploy my cube, I'll lose this info.

Does anyone have experience using Annotations? Are they only exposed via the AMO OM?

In design mode, you can switch to raw XMLA code view by right clicking on the object. You can select "view code" and you'll see XML representation of the object.

You got to be careful modifying the XML directly such that if something goes wrong, you might loose consistency of your object. But on the other hand XML representation gives you power to access any property (such as annotations ) directly without UI.

Again. Be careful with using raw XML code view, but if you feel comfortable with modifying XML, adding new tags you should be able to add annotations to pretty much any object in your database.

Edward.
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|||A collegue and I are looking at possibly adding this feature to BIDS through an open source project we are working on at http://www.codeproject.com/BIDSHelper unfortuntately this is not one of the features we have in the pipeline for the first release, but it is one of the things we have on our list of possible features.|||The BIDS helpers look pretty cool, thanks Darren.|||

The ability to edit annotations is finally coded in the BIDS Helper project. See:

http://www.codeplex.com/bidshelper/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Show%20Extra%20Properties&referringTitle=Home

Hope that's helpful.

Annotations in design mode?

Is there any way to persist Annotations in design mode? I'm considering using them to keep track of measure-group specific state, but I'm worried that every time I re-deploy my cube, I'll lose this info.

Does anyone have experience using Annotations? Are they only exposed via the AMO OM?

In design mode, you can switch to raw XMLA code view by right clicking on the object. You can select "view code" and you'll see XML representation of the object.

You got to be careful modifying the XML directly such that if something goes wrong, you might loose consistency of your object. But on the other hand XML representation gives you power to access any property (such as annotations ) directly without UI.

Again. Be careful with using raw XML code view, but if you feel comfortable with modifying XML, adding new tags you should be able to add annotations to pretty much any object in your database.

Edward.
--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

|||A collegue and I are looking at possibly adding this feature to BIDS through an open source project we are working on at http://www.codeproject.com/BIDSHelper unfortuntately this is not one of the features we have in the pipeline for the first release, but it is one of the things we have on our list of possible features.|||The BIDS helpers look pretty cool, thanks Darren.|||

The ability to edit annotations is finally coded in the BIDS Helper project. See:

http://www.codeplex.com/bidshelper/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Show%20Extra%20Properties&referringTitle=Home

Hope that's helpful.

Annotations - No Copy, No Undo, No Delete confirmation?

In the Business Intellifgence studio, why can't I copy and paste an annotation, why is there no Delete confirmation, it's very easy to accidentally hit the delete option when you right click, worse still, if you do delete accidentally you can't Edit > Undo ? ..or have I missed something here?OK, i found out I can highlight the text, and use Ctrl+C on the keyboard to copy the text...no undo or delete confirmation is my main issue.

Annotations

Is there anyway to allow my Data Flow annotations to wrap? (April CTP)
ThanksCTRL-Enter|||Thanks Jamie. How did you figure that one out?|||Would be nice if they actually wrapped though, so when you resize a component's screen icon, you don't have to change the hard-code line breaks. Logged this a while back.|||Err... can't quite remember, it was a long time ago. I've a vague recollection of moaning that ALT-Enter didn't do it (cos that's what works in Excel) when someone (Allan I think) informed me how to do it.|||

DarrenSQLIS wrote:

Would be nice if they actually wrapped though, so when you resize a component's screen icon, you don't have to change the hard-code line breaks. Logged this a while back.

Yeah, I put in a request for font formatting and the ability embed links/images as well. Basically an editor like the one I'm currently writing in would be nice.