Scheduling a job
iHub incorporates a flexible job scheduling model for running designs. The term job refers to the following iHub tasks:
Generating a document by running a design using a schedule
Printing a document
Converting the following document formats:
From a BIRT design to BIRT document, Excel, PDF, PostScript, PowerPoint, Word
From a BIRT document to CSV, Excel, PDF, PostScript, PowerPoint, PSV, TSV, Word
After a scheduled job runs, iHub can notify channel users by e-mail about the availability of the document.
In Management Console, you schedule a job in Files and Folders and track Job status in Jobs. In scheduling a job, you specify the following properties:
Schedule
Settings include job name, time zone, priorities, version number, number of retries, and other run job settings, such as date and time, recurrence, and event settings.
Parameters
Run-time design parameters, if any exist.
Output
Properties such as where to store the output document, the file format, and the archive policy.
Privileges
Privilege assignments on the output document for users and security roles.
Channels
Channels for broadcasting the document and sending job completion and failure notices.
Notification
Notification groups and users to notify when a job completes, and notification options, such as notifying by e-mail or by creating a completion notice in a user’s personal channel.
Print
How to print the output document.