Setting Up Trigger-based Scheduling

To schedule an entry based on an occurrence and confirm trigger-based scheduling, you must have read, write, execute, and traverse permissions.

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.

You also require the following access permissions for all data sources used by the entry.

Table 1. Data sources and permissions required for trigger-based scheduling
Data source	Permissions
dataSource	Execute and Traverse
dataSourceConnection	Execute and Traverse With only Execute access, you are prompted to log on to the database.
dataSourceSignon	Execute

Before setting up trigger-based scheduling, ensure that your credentials exist and are up to date.

Tip: Click the my area options button My area icon , My Preferences, and, on the Personal tab, click Renew the credentials.

Follow this process to set up trigger-based scheduling:

Schedule an entry based on the occurrence Schedule an Entry Based on an Occurrence.
Have your administrator set up the trigger occurrence on a server.

Trigger occurrences can also be set up by a Software Development Kit developer using the IBM Cognos Software Development Kit. For more information, see the Software Development Kit Developer Guide.

See information about setting up the trigger occurrence on a server Set Up a Trigger Occurrence on a Server. You can also disable trigger-based scheduling Disable Support for Trigger-based Scheduling.