SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 gives the same scheduling and instance management options in both the CMC and BI Launch Pad. When you schedule an object, you can choose from the recurrence patterns summarized with the following links:
The recurrence pattern determines how often a publication runs. You select a recurrence pattern for a publication in the Schedule dialog box. As a result, the publication runs at the scheduled times.
BI Launch Pad has similar CMC scheduling options but with a different interface and navigation options.
BI Launch Pad Scheduling Options
- Definition:
With BI Launch Pad, you can configure two different tabs to specify your scheduling settings for a Web Intelligence document or a Crystal Reports report.
- General tab
- Report Features tab
- General tab:
In this tab, some general information can be set up for scheduling an object:
- Instance Title
- Destinations
- Recurrence
- Events
- Scheduling Server Group
- Notification
Several recurrence options are available in the General tab of BI Launch Pad:
- Now:
Using this option means that the object will be scheduled to be run once and will be started just after having clicked on the Schedule button of the page.
- Once:
Using this option means that the object will be scheduled to be run once at a specified date and time.
- Recurring:
Using this option means that the object will be scheduled on a periodic basis. Periodic basis proposed in BI Launch Pad are the following:
- Hourly
- Daily
- Weekly
- Business Hours
- Monthly
- Day of the Month
- Calendar:
Using this option means that the object will be scheduled on a CMC calendar created by administrators. There is no calendar created in the CMC by default. For instance, you can create a calendar in order to schedule and run an object on last Fridays, every month.
- Report Features tab:
In this tab, some general information can be set up for scheduling an object:
- Formats
- Prompts
- Delivery Rules
Several recurrence options are available in the Report Features tab of BI Launch Pad:
- Formats:
You can save an instance in different formats after SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 generates it. When you schedule a document you can save an instance in the following formats:
- Web Intelligence (.WID)
- Web Intelligence Extract (.WIDX)
- Microsoft Excel - Data (.XLSX)
- Microsoft Excel - Reports (.XLSX)
- Adobe Acrobat (.PDF)
- Comma Separated Values (CSV) - Data (.CSV)
- Comma Separated Values (CSV) Archive - Reports (.ZIP)
- Plain text (.TXT)
- HTML archive (.ZIP)
- Prompts:
A prompt is a filter in the form of a question displayed by Web Intelligence that you answer by selecting specific values. When a document is scheduled, prompts can have static values and are specified when creating the scheduling job.
Note
If you cannot see anything in the Prompts area, that is because the document you are scheduling doesn't contain prompts. - Delivery Rules:
Setting delivery rules for scheduled documents prevent the sending of erroneous or empty documents. Define a status for the documents that fail to meet the rules so you can identify them and reschedule them, change the connection details, or take other, appropriate action. You define conditions that the document must meet for it to be sent to the following destinations:
BI Inbox
Email
FTP Server
File System
SFTP server
When the document fails to meet those conditions, it is not sent. You can choose one or both of the following conditions for a document:
The scheduled content has been successfully refreshed and is not partial: The document is sent only when all the data providers for the document have been successfully refreshed. A document that contains data from incomplete results isn't sent.
The scheduled content contains data: The document is sent only when at least one report in the document contains data. An empty document isn't sent.
When you select a condition, you can also define the status that displays in the history for a document that fails to meet the condition, as follows:
Warning (by default)
Failed
If a report in your document has multiple queries and one or multiple queries return partials results, when you select the The scheduled content has been successfully refreshed and is not partial rule, the report is sent in case of Warning status, but is not sent in case of Failed status.
When you select both conditions and the status of one condition is Warning while the status of the other condition is Failed, the history shows Failed.
