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Scheduling and Bursting Reports
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
• Schedule reports
• View the saved output and job history
• Manage scheduled reports
• Provide an overview of bursting
• Add a bursting definition
• Schedule reports for bursting
• View and manage a bursting report job and job history
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Scheduling BI Publisher Reports
In BI Publisher Server you can:
• Configure the BI Publisher Scheduler
• Schedule reports
• View the saved output and history
• Manage scheduled reports
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Schedule Report Job: Overview
The Schedule Report Job page contains four tabs for selecting report job options.
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The General Options Tab
General options for report jobs:
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The Output Options Tab
Output options for report jobs:
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The Schedule Options Tab
Schedule options:
The date picker allows you to select a date and a time zone.
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The Notification Options Tab
Notification options for report jobs:
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Submitting the Job and Reviewing the Confirmation Details
Submission:
Email confirmation indicates that the job has completed.
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Manage Report Jobs: Overview
The Manage Report Jobs page enables you to:
• View recurring jobs and future scheduled jobs
• Filter jobs displayed on the page
• See the jobs displayed in your own time zone
• Sort data by column names
• Monitor the status of a job
• Delete, suspend, or resume a job
• View job details
• Refresh the page to see the latest jobs and their corresponding statuses
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Manage Report Jobs: Overview
Typical view of a Manage Report Jobs page:
Details after the job has executed.
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Report Job History: Overview
Use the Report Job History page to:
• View running and completed report jobs
• Filter jobs
• View submitted jobs in your own time zone
• Refresh the page to view the latest job history
• Scroll to see the Report Job Histories table
• Sort by column in the Report Job Histories table
• Delete multiple jobs from the Report Job Histories table
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Viewing Report Job History
The Report Job History page displays information about running and completed report jobs.
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Report Job History Details: Overview
Use the Report Job History Details page to:
• View the details of completed jobs
• Filter jobs by status
• Sort jobs by column names
• View the general information and report job execution summaries
• Download the report’s XML data
• Download or view the report output (if you selected the Save Output check box while scheduling the job)
• Republish the report in any output format by using the saved data
• Send the report output to any destination
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Viewing Job History Details
Click the report job name to view a detail page for the job.
Expand Icon
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Downloading and Republishing
Output and delivery details for job history:
Download the data.
Republish the report.
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Sending the Output to a New Destination
Sending the output to a new destination:
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Bursting is the process of generating multiple documents from the same report, and delivering each document to a different destination.
HTML
MS Excel
RTF
BI Publisher
Data
Templates Deliver
Split
MS PowerPoint
Bursting a Report
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Bursting: Key Concepts
A bursting definition is a component of the data model. After you define the data sets for the data model, you can set up one or more bursting definitions. When you set up a bursting definition, you define the following:
• Split By key
• Deliver By key
• Delivery query
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Adding a Bursting Definition
Adding a bursting definition where the data set is already defined:
Multiple bursting definitions are possible in the same data model.
Create New Bursting Icon
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Enabling a Report to Use a Bursting Definition
Use the Report Properties dialog box of Report Editor to enable a report to use a bursting definition.
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Scheduling a Bursting Job
Selecting the bursting option while scheduling a report:
Bursting option not enabled. Bursting
option enabled.
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Viewing Report Job History After Bursting
The Report Job History page after completing bursting:
You can send or
republish the report.Click to view
the details.
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Viewing Job History Details After Bursting
This delivery output was split to
Marketing and indicates a
successful status
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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
• Schedule reports
• View the saved output and job history
• Manage scheduled reports
• Provide an overview of bursting
• Add a bursting definition
• Schedule reports for bursting
• View and manage a bursting report job and job history
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Practice 9: Overview
This practice covers the following topics:
• Examining the BI Publisher Scheduler
• Scheduling a BI Publisher report
• Reviewing the report and job history
• Bursting the report to a file location
• Scheduling a report to deliver as an email attachment
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Quiz
In BI Publisher, the feature that enables you to schedule long-running queries or reports to be run at a specified time and date is:
a. Publishing
b. Administration
c. Scheduling
d. Reporting
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Quiz
Each scheduled job can have multiple output files with distinct characteristics and each output file can have a separate destination.
a. True
b. False
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Quiz
The three notification statuses for the reports in BI Publisher are “Report completed,” “Report completed with warnings,” and “Report failed.” BI Publisher supports two methods of notifications. What the two methods of notification?
a. Print and PDF
b. Email and HTTP
c. Text and charts
d. PPT and XLS
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Quiz
Bursting is enabled at the report level and used when you schedule reports.
a. True
b. False