Running a Scheduled Web Intelligence document

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to run a scheduled Web Intelligence document.

Setting a Schedule for a Web Intelligence Document

Process Flow

You can schedule a Web Intelligence Document to run at a future time from the Central Management Console (CMC) or BI Launch Pad.

Detailed Steps When Setting a Schedule for a Web Intelligence Document:

The following steps explain the interaction of SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 components when you schedule a Web Intelligence document from a web client.

  1. The user sends the schedule request from the BI Launch Pad web client through the web server to the web application server, where the BI Launch Pad web application is running.
  2. The web application server interprets the request and determines that the request is a schedule request. The web application server sends the schedule information, including time and destination, to the specified Central Management Server (CMS).
  3. The CMS checks the CMS system database to ensure that the user has rights to schedule the object. If the user has sufficient rights, the CMS adds a new record to the CMS system database. The CMS also adds the instance to its list of pending schedules.
  4. The CMS sends a response to the web application server to let it know that the schedule operation was successful.
  5. The web application server generates the next HTML page and sends it through the web server to the web client.
Schedule a Web Intelligence document from a web client

Running a Scheduled Web Intelligence Document

Process Flow

You can run a scheduled Web Intelligence Document from the Central Management Console (CMC) or BI Launch Pad.

Watch this video to see how to run a scheduled Web Intelligence Document.

Summary

  • The Central Management Server (CMS) checks its database to determine if a Web Intelligence document is scheduled to run and, if so, sends the request to an available Web Intelligence Scheduling Service.
  • The Web Intelligence Scheduling Service locates an available Web Intelligence Processing Server based on configured maximum connections.
  • The Web Intelligence Processing Server retrieves the document and related files, processes the document by generating SQL and connecting to the data source, then creates a new instance.
  • The processed document is uploaded to the Output File Repository Server, and the Web Intelligence Scheduling Service is notified of completion.
  • The Web Intelligence Scheduling Service updates the CMS with the job status, which is then recorded in the CMS system database.

Learning

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