Newbie BIDS questions

I've been learning SSIS and the BIDS for a few weeks now and there are 2 things that really annoy me. I'm hoping that there is a setting or option or something that I'm missing.

1. I place objects on the Control Flow surface, get everything arranged the way I want it, constraint lines all nice and tidy and then save it. When I open it things aren't the way they were when I closed it. Any way to make them stay the same?

2. If I select multiple objects and copy them when I paste them they are in really interesting places. Any way to have them stay in the same realitive positions?

This is one of the most helpful forums I've ever posted in so thanks to you all for the assistance.

John Colaizzi

John Colaizzi wrote:

I've been learning SSIS and the BIDS for a few weeks now and there are 2 things that really annoy me. I'm hoping that there is a setting or option or something that I'm missing.

1. I place objects on the Control Flow surface, get everything arranged the way I want it, constraint lines all nice and tidy and then save it. When I open it things aren't the way they were when I closed it. Any way to make them stay the same?

I cna't repro this problem. I admit when I open it the scrolling sometimes put me in a funny position but the objects are still in the same place in relation to each other. Fix the "scroleld to the wrong place" problem by going Edit-->Zoom-->To Fit.

John Colaizzi wrote:

2. If I select multiple objects and copy them when I paste them they are in really interesting places. Any way to have them stay in the same realitive positions?

Unfortunately not. Annoying isn't it?

John Colaizzi wrote:

This is one of the most helpful forums I've ever posted in so thanks to you all for the assistance.

John Colaizzi

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Jamie,

Are you saying that if you create a task, then create two more, drag constraint lines to each of the two more tasks, move the lines around, save and come back the lines are where you put them?

Here is a before:

and after:

It seems to happen mostly where I've changed anchor points or moved the lines so they don't cross directly over another object, especially a task.

Also, if I change an anchor point on the first object and then move the second object the lines redraw with the original anchor point. It almost seems pointless to move the lines at all :(

John

|||Did you ever find a fix for #1...? It's really annoying to organize my diagram only to have it revert back upon being closed and reopened...|||

I honestly don't ever find this to be a problem. Perhaps its because I always use the Auto-layout feature.

-Jamie

|||Unfortunately, my package is almost unreadable when 'auto arranged'... it's easy enough to arrange/move connections to improve it, but once I close and reopen the package it is all lost...