Parameter Defaults Not Updated When Deploying From BIDS

Hi,

Ever since working with RS I had noticed that deploying reports felt inconsistent and didn't always seem to work, requiring sometimes for me to delete and re-deploy the reports before seeing changes applied. This has the knock on effect of generating new report ID's (GUID's) for the reports and any data in the ExecutionLog table for your reports becomes useless inhibiting effective usage reporting.

I never quite put my finger on exactly what the issue was until recently discovered that "by design" report paramerter defaults are not updated when deploying reports from BIDS. This is because MS envisaged that DBA's or Report Adminstrators would be responsible for changing parameter defaults and prompts once the reports are deployed.
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=100960&SiteID=1

I disagree and having discussed this with the product team here http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2181673&SiteID=1 it seems a sensible option would be to add a deployment option to the reporting services project definition similar to the OverwriteDataSources option.

I have posted a product feedback report on the Connect site https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=299372

Please vote for this to be added to Katmai (RS 2008).