Report Scheduling

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Introduction

As well as running reports manually, you can also schedule the reports to run and be distributed on definable intervals

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Report Schedule Intervals

  • Run Once
  • Run Daily - Choose to run on all or specific days at a set time
  • Run Monthly - Choose to run on all or specific months on a set day and time in each month
  • Run Every Period (Minutes)

Once Scheduled reports can then be distributed to an existing document in Document Manager.

  • Find the document you want the report to be distributed to by searching for documents by document tags

Information If you don't have a document you wish to distribute your report to, create a new document in document manager by:

  • Running a report manually and downloading it.
  • In Document Manager choose to Upload a new document then Upload the report file.
  • Give the document a title, and tick the allow versioning option (this will allow add a new revision of the document automatically each time the schedule of the report is run).
  • Add a document tag such as Reports which you can then use in the Document search bar under the Publishing option to find and choose the document to distribute future scheduled iterations of the report too.
  • Choose the File Type in which the scheduled report will be created and distributed to the chosen document - ensure this matches the type of document you are looking to distribute this too.
  • The available formats in the drop down will mirror the file types you have enabled under the Output Format tab

Once the Report is Scheduled, it will show as an Running

  • Pause the Schedule and prevent further distribution of the report by clicking on the pause icon
  • This will mark the report as disabled
  • Click the play icon to resume the report schedule
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Click on the view log to see the history for the report schedule Click on the Report History tab and the i icon next to each run of the report to see more detail of when it ran, what report outputs were created and which document they were distributed too.