Schedule Reports by Time-Right Now
Schedule Reports by Time-Right Now is used when you want to see the output of the report at the current moment. By using this document user will know how to Schedule Reports using Right Now.
Objective
Schedule Report using Right Now.
Prerequisites
For this example Demo Merge Report used.
Download merge_report.zip file from link given merge_report.zip
Upload Combined Merge Report.merge report from downloaded zip file to Merge Report Section. Refer this link to see how to upload files in AIV. Use same procedure to upload both of the files.
Steps to Schedule Merge Report with Right Now
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We will be using Combined Merge Report.merge in this example.
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There are two ways in which user can schedule the report.
I. By right-clicking on desired report & select Edit from the context menu.
II. By double clicking on desired report.
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By opening the Merge Report using one of the methods mentioned above, the user will see the window as shown below:
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Go to Schedule tab as shown below:
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By default, the Schedule Type will be set to Time. If desired, select the same drop-down menu to change it, and ‘Right Now’ can be chosen as the output frequency.
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You can also specify how many times the report should be re-executed in case of failure and the interval from the drop-down menu shown in the figure. For instance, in our case, the report will be executed once in case of failure within 5 minutes.
Output Tab
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To specify the output, go to the output tab as follows:
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Enter the name by which you want to schedule the report in the Name text area. Also provide a suffix if required, it is optional.
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Select the format in which you want to generate the output from the drop-down menu. By default, the PDF format will be selected. Alternatively, you can manually select PDF from the Format drop-down menu.
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You can also specify an event of the success/failure of the report, which will trigger an event and execute all the waiting for event reports. Click here to know more in detail about Event Schedule.
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You can also specify the delivery path on your computer where the reports will be downloaded or send an email to other users as follows.
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Select the users and the roles from the drop-down menu & Enter your email address/addresses to which you want to send the report via email as shown above.
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Select a template from the drop-down, we have selected the Default template for our example.
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Click on
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In case of any further help, the user can click on the
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If the user is not satisfied and wants to cancel the schedule request, he can do this by clicking on the cancel button next to the merge icon or by clicking on
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The merge report is scheduled and output is displayed in PDF format in the new tab.
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The user can see the schedule request in the Request section of the AIV application. This section displays all the reports that have been completed, running, waiting for events or schedules. In case of report failure, the error is also displayed on this page.