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Question with how to set scheduled reports to run every other week.
Hello Community!
I have a request to schedule a report to email out every other Tuesday. When using the drop down options during Editing Scheduled Report, I do not see an option for this ability. When going into advance, it is cron based scheduling, which doesn't step 2 weeks with built-in options. I assumed that maybe after setting a schedule it would show up in crontab (so I could add a "test" statement), but I'm not finding the user that is doing this. Leads me to believe it is a built-in scheduler. I'm probably going to see if the advance options will take a "test" statement but seeing if anyone in the community has found this solution already.
TLDR : Any one have any experience with setting schedules to run every other week in SRM?
isakats
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May 31st, 2017 11:00
Hi sooksun_cci,
I gave it a try, unfortunately it ended up with an invalid format error.
However a possible work around could be to create the scheduled report in the UI with the storage / email settings you need and save it as disabled. You can then trigger the scheduled report trough command line with the (APG/bin) manage-task.sh command.
You can use ./manage-tasks.sh list to get the details of the task and run it with ./manage-tasks.sh start <.taskID>.task
i.e.:
./manage-tasks.sh list
Scheduled Tasks List:
Id Name Category Last Result Current Status Schedule
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------- ------------------ ------------ --------------- ------------------
...
scheduled-reports/user1/2017-05-31_13-59-53_320.task Summary report-scheduling success disabled 0 0 * * *
...
./manage-tasks.sh start scheduled-reports/user1/2017-05-31_13-59-53_320.task
hth
Regards,
Isaka
isakats
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May 30th, 2017 11:00
Hi sooksun_cci,
Indeed, the cron setting is in the task-scheduler which triggers the reports.
I took a look at the actual config in the task-scheduler and unfortunately i don't see anyway of scheduling a report to run every other week.
Regards,
Isaka
Sooksun_CCI
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May 30th, 2017 13:00
Thanks for the reply, Isaka. Since the task-scheduler is cron like, do you know if you can pass calls to it like you can with built-in cron? Like the test command so you can provide a condition.
Here is a sample of what I mean if this was straight crontab:
0 8 * * 6 test $((10#$(date +\%W)\%2)) -eq 1 && yourCommandThanks!Sooksun_CCI
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June 1st, 2017 07:00
Thanks a bunch Isaka!
It isn't built in, but at least now I can control it with cron. Manually running the report works great. Just need to document and publish to our runbook.