Hi there,

I just found out about snippets within the VSAE and it excited me right from the spot. I've had several occasions in which I had to Copy, Paste and Replace quite large numbers of Rules. All of that could be simplyfied with VSAE snippets, at least I thought.

My first work with snippets was supposed to replace the GUI Template for "Web Application Availability Monitoring". We are about to start using System Center Global Service Monitoring and I am not a friend of GUI-Based MPs for several reasons (as constant ex-/Import for sealing/unsealing/modifying the MP or readability the the IDs).

The Workflow to create a GSM Probe contains roughly 70 Lines of XML Code and replacing the relevant parts with snippet coding(eg: #text...#) wasn't that much of an issue. But I was surprised when I opened the .mpsd to create my first probes.

As you might see in the Screenshot, I had to fill in 17! fields just to set 5 Parameters (IDName, AlarmGrp, GUID, URLName, Interval). The snippet template doesn't seem to create unique text/choice replacements wich can be used several times.

Is it just me, or does this make snippets not as comfortable and satisfying as I expected them to be? (and as the actually could be)

Or is there a way to create unique text replacements and I just didn't find the right Option?

regards

Tobias Lierzer

Hi,

I think this i fixed in the VSAE for VS 2012/2013 or maybe also with the current Version in VS 2010 but i'm not sure.

I'm using VS 2012 and don't have to fill in the same unique replacement several times as i had to do in VS 2010.

Cheers

Hi,

thanks for that Info. I'm still on VS2010.

Although I motivated myself to work with it again and found out, that I can TAB through the fields and it will auto-fill corresponding fields. That will reduces the space to make Errors.

regards

Tobias