Adding Jobs

Add Job page

Click Add Job button from the job list page to add a new job.

Figure 4: Add Job page

You need to specify the following information to add a new job:

Job details

• Name: A name to uniquely identify this Job.

• Skip delivery on no data: If selected, report will be delivered to selected delivery options only if the report has any data. Otherwise job will be skipped.

• Delete on completion: If selected, job will be deleted after execution for Run Now and Once. For Recurring, it will be deleted if further execution is not scheduled after last execution.

• Suspend: If selected, that job will not be implemented that time onward.

Task Details

• Choose Task: Select a task from pre-set tasks. Click the Modify Task button to modify the selected task.

• New Task: Click this button if you want to create a new task.

• Report Name: A task is associated with a report. The report name associated with the selected task appears here automatically.

Note: If you have opened this page for adding a job you will notice that Run As, Format and Delivery remain blank. This information will be displayed when this page is opened for modifying a task.

Run

• Now: To execute the job now.

• Once: To execute the job once. (at given date and time).  Select a Date.  (For explanation of date format, click here).  Specify time in terms of 24 hours format.  In Time Zone, select the time zone as per which time is specified.  For example, 09:09:09 in GMT.  Report server will execute the job at 09:09:09 GMT.  If Time zone is not selected, job will be executed as per report server’s time zone.

• Recurring: To execute the task as per one of the pre-set schedules. Select the schedule from Schedule List.  Click New Schedule button to create a new schedule. If you have opened an existing job, instead of New Schedule button, you will see a Modify Schedule Use the Modify Schedule button to make changes to the assigned schedule.

Run As

To run the job in the name of a specific user, select organization ID and User ID.  Please note that Run As set in job overrides Run As set in task.

Notification

If you want to send a notification to an e-mail recipient:

• On Success: To send a notification on success of the job. Select the check box On Success, Notify Email Id to and specify the e-mail ID.

• On Failure: To send a notification on failure of the job. Select check box On Error, Notify Email Id to and specify the e-mail Id.

Advanced Options

On Error

Once report generation starts and due to any reason, it does not get completed, it is an error.  In this case, to retry the report generation, select checkbox Retry and specify the time when Report Server should retry the task.  Values can be given in terms of

• Minutes: The number of minutes after which it should be retried.

• Hours: The number of hours after which it should be retried.

• Days: The number of days after which it should be retried.

• Retry times: The number of times it should be retried.

If more than one value is specified, they would be added.  For example, after 2 days, 4 hours and 10 minutes.

On Skip

If the report generation could not start as per calendar, it is considered skipped.  In this case to recover (try once again) the calendar, select the check box Recover and specify the time when it should retry the task.  Values can be given in terms of:

• Minutes: The number of minutes after which it should be recovered.

• Hours: The number of hours after which it should be recovered.

• Days: The number of days after which it should be retried.