Report Scheduling

[perry]

Hi,

We've been asked few times in the past if we can schedule Jiwa reports. We normally just build a plugin to do that. However, recently a customer asked if we can schedule like 20 reports (with different filters) to run on EOM.

Just wondering if you have any plan on this feature?
e.g. for each schedule, user can define
- schedule
- report range
- export type (print/email/file export)
- some dynamic setting for each type, e.g. file name, email template, folder location

[Mike.Sheen]

Hi Perry,

We don't have any plans to build a user configurable way of printing reports on a scheduled basis - but it is a neat idea to be able to let the user choose a report, range values to use and a schedule.

We can print / email reports on a scheduled basis using a plugin and the plugin scheduler service - but that requires a little bit of code to load the report, set the report parameters and then print or email - no nice UI for a user to manage themselves.

If you would like to see this functionality, you can lodge an improvement request on our helpdesk.

Mike

[perry]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for response,

just had an idea,
1. user save report range with name of e.g "WeeklySchedule"
2. build a plugin with schedule name of "WeeklySchedule"
3. plugin to pick all reports with name of saved report range = name of schedule
4. read report and apply saved range range
5. export/email (this part cant be dynamically set by user)
Not 100%, at least this way user has control of changing report range without updating the plugin.

[Mike.Sheen]

just had an idea,
1. user save report range with name of e.g "WeeklySchedule"
2. build a plugin with schedule name of "WeeklySchedule"
3. plugin to pick all reports with name of saved report range = name of schedule
4. read report and apply saved range range
5. export/email (this part cant be dynamically set by user)
Not 100%, at least this way user has control of changing report range without updating the plugin.

Cool idea - wouldn't take too much effort and looks like it would do the job!