MicroStrategy 7 Administrator Guide

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You can schedule reports according to two types of criteria:
• time-triggered criteria
• event-triggered criteria
When a scheduled report finishes executing, a message appears in the user’s Inbox
alerting him that the report is ready to be viewed. Users simply double-click the
message to see the report. If the request was not completed successfully, users can
right-click the message and choose Details to see the error message.
Time-triggered report scheduling
When a report is set to a time-triggered schedule, you define a specific date and
time at which the report is to be run. You may also create recurring time-triggered
schedules, which allow users to run a particular report every Sunday night, for
example.
Time-triggered schedules are especially important in systems where the database
refresh rate is very high or if the refresh cycle is very reliable and regular. Timetriggered
schedules are also used to allow large, resource-intensive reports to run
at off-peak times, such as overnight or over a weekend.
For example, in a particularly large or busy system, you may wish to limit the
number and complexity of reports users may execute during the day. In this case,
you should create schedules to allow users to schedule resource-intensive reports
to run at a time when MicroStrategy Intelligence Server is not particularly busy,
usually overnight or at some other off-peak time.
You may also choose to create recurring report execution schedules. For example,
if a database load occurs every Friday night, a user may request a report to be
executed each time the database is loaded, perhaps every Saturday morning.
Event-triggered report scheduling
You can create schedules based on the occurrence of an event. When an event is
triggered, all reports tied to that event are submitted.
You define the set of relevant events and create the event-triggered schedules from
which users may select when scheduling a report.
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In a testing environment, you can manually trigger events using the Event
Viewer. To learn about the Event Viewer, see the following topic in the Interfaces
section:
Event Viewer
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