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Scheduling a Free-Form Report

Follow these steps:

1. In the Free-Form Report Properties page, under Scheduling, click Edit.

   The Scheduling page opens.

2. In Send to, select either or both of the following options:
   • Mail recipients to email the scheduled report. Enter the address of the email recipients in the field provided. Multiple addresses can be entered, separated by a space or semicolon.
   • File to save the scheduled report to a file. Enter the name of the file in the text field. The file location will be the server's default location. In addition, you can enter a full path to another location on the server or another machine.
3. Select the To be approved by check box and enter the email address of the person who must approve the report before it is sent to others.

   When the report is generated, a link is emailed to this person, who must approve sending or saving the report by clicking the Send button.

4. In Hour, select the time for running the report from the drop-down list, and then select a time zone from the drop-down list.
5. Select the Pend until report is ready check box to have the report sent only after all results are calculated.
6. In Attachment format, select the output format of the report to be sent and in Include, select the information to be included from the available options.

   The following table indicates the content availability per attachment format.

• * HTML reports can be sent as .MHT, which embeds all the required files into a single MHTML document. This allows the document to be viewed at a later time its entirety, without broken links.

1. Select the Add link check box to add a link to the report in the email.
2. In Recurrence pattern, select Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Yearly. and then select the time option from the displayed fields. This determines how often the report is rerun. For example, you can select a weekly recurrence and then select every weekday.
3. In Range of recurrence, type the start date for running the report. Select No end date, End after or End by to set when to stop running the report and enter the relevant details in the fields provided.

   Note: Click to open the calendar pop-up and the select a date.

4. Click OK to return to the Free-Form Report Properties page.

   The report is now scheduled to run automatically according to the set parameters.

Note: If an error occurs and the report does not run as scheduled, the system continues to try and run it for several intervals. After a few failed attempts, the schedule is stopped and the report needs to be rescheduled.