CyclicReporting

Introduction

Aperte Cyclic Reports portlet provides a possibility to automate report generation in periodic manner. Report generated in that way will be sent to provided email address according to When expression and will be available to preview also on the background reports list.

Please note that cyclic reports use background report generation feature and require configured JMS provider in order to work and configured Mail Session to send emails. For JMS and SMTP configuration refer to AdvancedInstallationGuide#JNDI_Configuration

Useful utility for creating desired Cron Expression is available at http://www.cronmaker.com/

Defining cyclic report

To define new cyclic report, just click Add button:

Panel for new cyclic report appears:

In the edit view one can configure:

• Report
• Format of the generated report
• Recipient's email
• When expression in Cron format
• Description - useful to distinct similar cyclic reports

After clicking Save button, cyclic report definition will switch to View mode.

New cyclic reports are disabled by defualt (report name is greyed), so click Enable link to schedule it.