Comments on: SSIS – Organize the toolbox in BIDS

By: DaveP

DaveP — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:22:57 +0000

Well, I’ll be danged. There it is.

Thanks.

By: Craig Pelkie

Craig Pelkie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:25:16 +0000

In BIDS, Tools menu, Import and Export Settings. Get your preferred configuration all set in one BIDS, export to a .vssettings file in a location of your choice. In other BIDS, use import.

By: DaveP

DaveP — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:15:56 +0000

I also like to rename the toolbox items using the Task/Transformation naming conventions proposed by Jamie Thompson some years ago, e.g. SQL Task becomes “SQL – SQL Task”, Lookup becomes “LKP – Lookup”, etc.

[The link to Jamie's recommendations is now broken, or I would post it.]

This makes it easy to remember (and use) a naming convention.

I only wish I could find where BIDS stores this information; it’s pretty tedious to set up on multiple machines.