Default Date Parameters for SSRS Subscription

I have a SSRS 2008 R2 report running on a Sharepoint 2010 site.
It has two date parameters (Beginning and Ending Date).
The defaults of these dates are calculated correctly when running interactively.
For example:
=DateAdd("d",-28, Today)
=DateAdd("d",-1, Today)
However, when you create a subscription the defaults are based on when the report is submitted and not when the report is executed.
Is there anyway to set a subscription to pull the default parameters every time when executed.
Thanks in advance.

Hi miguelh,
Based on my research, if we specified the report parameters with “Use Report Default Value” is checked in the subscription, we could get the report from this subscription with the default value. The default values are based on the expression when the subscription
is executed, rather than the time when we create the subscription. If today is 7/21/2014, the Beginning Date is 6/23/2014, Ending Date is 7/20/2014.
So, please double check you have typed the expressions as the default values in the two date parameters and we have select the “Use Report Default Value” as the parameter values when creating the subscription .
If there are any other questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
TechNet Community Support

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