Scheduling document generation

You can schedule a report to generate a document at a specific time. For example, you might want the document to be generated every day at the same time.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Generate page of the web app.
  2. Find the report in the list and in the Generate column click Generate Later Generate later.
  3. Enter the name and description of the job schedule.
  4. Set the frequency of the job:
    • One Time
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
  5. Set the start or end dates of the job using the calendar.
  6. Click Schedule.
  7. For this scheduled job to run successfully, you must generate this document at least once prior to the first instance on the schedule, so that the credentials are stored for this job.
    Schedule tab
    The schedule appears in the Schedules tab of the Generate page. When a scheduled job runs, you can see the status of the running job in the View page.
  8. To see the completed jobs associated with a schedule, click View generated documents View generated documents pane in the Actions column.
    View Generated Documents
  9. In the Actions column, you can also edit and delete schedules.

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