Task Options

The options available when you select the Task tab are:

• Path. Shows the report path in the Repository or on the Reporting Server.
• Procedure. The name of the procedure you are scheduling.
• Server Name. The Reporting Server to which the report procedure (FEX) will be submitted.
• Execution ID. The user ID running the report procedure (FEX) on the Reporting Server. Click on the Password button to the right of this field to set the password.
• Password. Enter a password for the Execution ID.
• Alert. Specifies how to reactivate the alert or to deactivate the alert condition when it is triggered. Click Alert to specify the alert options.

  Select one of the following options from the Alert Options dialog box.

  • Automatically Reset. After the alert is triggered, reactivate the alert when the condition is no longer true. The system will keep checking the condition after the alert has been triggered. As soon as the condition is no longer true, it will reactivate the alert. This is the default value.
  • Continue After Alert. After the alert is triggered, reactivate the alert immediately.
  • Deactivate Schedule After Alert. Deactivate the schedule after the alert is triggered.
  • Delay. Restart the alert after a specified period. You can specify to restart the alert after a maximum of 99 hour(s), day(s), week(s), month(s), or year(s).

    Caution: Be sure that you set the schedule interval to a time period greater than the time it takes to run the scheduled procedure. When the schedule interval is less than the time it takes to run the procedure and the Delay option is selected, an alert schedule will distribute (based on the distribution option that you selected) more frequently than expected. For email distribution, this can result in unnecessary distribution of emails which can impact the business or operational goals of the alert report distribution.

• Enabled. Selected by default, this option allows you to disable a task.

Report Properties

• Burst Report. If you want to burst the report, select the Burst Report check box. The burst feature enables you to instruct the Reporting Server to create the report in sections so that they can be distributed separately.
• Override the Format Specified in the Procedure. Select this check box to display the list of report formats and indicate a format other than the one specified in the procedure.

  Note:

  • If the scheduled report is a compound report that uses the stabilized SET COMPOUND OPEN syntax, you must select the Override the Format Specified in the Procedure check box and specify the format in the schedule when scheduling this report. Otherwise, the report will not be distributed. Compound reports produced by the WebFOCUS and App Studio reporting tools such as InfoAssist and the App Studio Document canvas do not require that the Override the Format Specified in the Procedure check box be checked.

  • FLEX, VISDIS, and VISDISAE report output formats are no longer supported. If you are editing a task that uses one of these formats within a schedule, you can change the output format in the dialog box that opens.

    • If you click OK, and the output format of the report is set to FLEX, the task output is saved as AHTML.
    • If you click OK, and the output format of the report is set to VISDIS or VISDISAE, the task output is saved as HTML.
    • If you click Exit, the output format will not be changed, and any changes that you made to the task will not be saved.
  • When an existing schedule is opened in the Basic Scheduling tool, if the Override the Format Specified in the Procedure check box was selected, the list of formats displays. If you clear the Override the Format Specified in the Procedure check box, the list of formats does not display.
  • When an existing schedule is opened in the Basic Scheduling tool, if the Override the Format Specified in the Procedure check box was not selected, the list of formats does not display. If you select the Override the Format Specified in the Procedure check box, the list of formats displays.

• Save Report As. Allows you to specify a different name for the report, which defaults to the name of the report that you selected to schedule.

  Note: When the Save Report As field contains an amper variable followed by a file extension, the separating characters between the amper variable and the file extension must be either two additional period (.) characters, or a single vertical bar (|) character, as shown in the following examples.

  • The file extension is preceded by two additional period characters. For example, car_&YYMD…csv.
  • The file extension is preceded by a vertical bar character. For example, car_&YYMD|.csv.