Schedule an Entry Based on an Occurrence

As part of setting up trigger-based scheduling, you must schedule an entry based on an occurrence.

Trigger-based schedule is activated if the user firing the trigger has:

  • read and traverse permissions for the schedule entry
  • traverse permissions for all ancestors of the schedule entry
  • access to IBM® Cognos® Administration

To schedule reports to run in the delimited text (CSV), PDF, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (XLS), or XML output formats, you require the generate output capability for the specific format. For more information, see Report formats.

Procedure

  1. In IBM Cognos Connection, click the schedule button Schedule icon next to the entry you want to schedule.
  2. Under Frequency, click the By Trigger tab.
  3. In Trigger name, type the name of the trigger occurrence.

    Note: The trigger name that you enter may be provided to you by your administrator or developer. If not, you must inform your administrator or developer of the trigger name that you use.

  4. The default start date is "now", and the default end date is "forever", which means the trigger schedule runs when the trigger is fired (either from trigger.bat or from an Software Development Kit application). If you enter a valid start and end date, the trigger schedule can only be fired between those dates.
  5. Click OK.
Parent topic: Trigger-based Entry Scheduling