General tab

Before you can schedule a task, you first need to configure the settings in this tab. See the tab.

Schedule Name

Specifies the name for the currently scheduled task.

Priority

Specifies a priority level to the report running task. The priority levels are from 1 to 10 in ascending order of lowest priority to highest priority. This property is available to administrators. By default this property is ignored unless server.properties is modified to set queue.policy not equal to 0.

Enter Parameters

Specifies the parameter values if any to run the report. If you are running a page report, you need to select specific report tabs to run.

Select Report Tabs

Specifies the page report tabs you schedule to run.

Select Bursting Reports

This option is available when there are bursting reports in the current report. Select the bursting report you schedule to run. You can select only one bursting report at a time.

Once you choose to schedule to run a bursting report, you should at least either complete Bursting Configuration for the report or select Non-bursting result in order to submit the task.

Bursting Configuration

Non-bursting Result

If checked, the bursting definition will be removed from the report and the result will be generated based on whole data without data splitting.

Parameters

Specifies values of the parameters applied in the report. If no parameter is used, "No Parameter Needed" will be displayed here.

You may specify parameter values in the following ways:

Save Values

This link is available when Use Saved Values is checked. When it is clicked, the currently displayed parameter values set for the specified report will be saved as a whole marked as a list for reuse next time, and you need to provide a name for the list in the prompted dialog as required.

If multiple report tabs are selected in this schedule task, the parameter values specified for all of the report tabs are saved as a list. The next time only when these very report tabs are selected, can the list be available for apply after you select the Use Saved Values checkbox.

The parameter value lists saved for the selected report tabs are limited. The maximum number is controlled by the option Maximum Number of Auto Complete Parameters List in the Profile > Customize Server Preferences > Advanced tab. By default it is 3. When the number of the saved parameter value lists reaches the maximum number, if you want to save another parameter list, it will overwrite the oldest one.

Save as default

Saves current parameter values to the default item of the "Use Saved Values" list for the report. The default item is used to retrieve default values to the parameters. If users do not set the default values, or if any of the parameters cannot find a matched validated value from the default item, all the parameters will use their default values specified in the parameters' definition.

This operation takes effect after the task is submitted.

Report Information

Specifies the report information.

Report

Lists information about the report.

Catalog

Lists the catalog information.

Select Another Catalog

Specifies another catalog for the report in the Select Another Catalog dialog.

Report Version

Specifies the report version when you schedule a task. The default version is always the latest version.

Catalog Version

Specifies the catalog version when you schedule a task. The default version is always the latest version.

Advanced section

Configures some advanced settings.

Enable Style Group

When this option is disabled as default, use the style group properties of the selected report tabs or web report for corresponding export formats that are predefined in JReport Designer to do the schedule. These predefined style group properties take effect when publishing to version/disk/e-mail/FTP.

When this option is enabled, you are allowed to select a style group from the Style Group drop-down list to apply it to all the selected report tabs or web report for all export formats. This setting will cancel all the style group properties of the selected report tabs or web report for all export formats that are predefined in JReport Designer and replace them all with the value specified here.

Enable Converting Encoding

Specifies to enable the conversion of encoding. From the Before Converting and After Converting drop-down lists, select encodings as required.

Enable NLS

Specifies whether to enable NLS for the report. If checked, the Using Language drop-down list will be displayed for you to choose a language.

Notes:

Encoding

Specifies the encoding of the report from the drop-down list.

Connect to [Data Source Name]

Specifies the DB user and password with which you want to connect to the data source the report uses.

Add TaskListener to be Invoked

Enables you to call the Java application before/after viewing or when scheduling the report.

Specify a preferred server to run the task

Enables you to directly specify a server in a cluster to perform the schedule task instead of using load balancing. This option is available only when there are more than one active server in a cluster and when the Identify Server Preference option in the Profile > Customize Server Preferences > Advanced tab is selected.

Enable Auto Recover Task

Specifies to enable the task to be auto recovered.