About Maintaining a Schedule in the Basic Scheduling Tool

As a user with the ability to access the Basic Scheduling tool or ReportCaster Advanced Scheduling tool, you can perform various maintenance functions on the schedules you are authorized to access.

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http://myhost/ibi_apps/se.rc?ibfsld=S200c3184s6b98s4345saa69s5

Note: The options shown are dependent on your security effective policy.

Edit

Allows you to open and edit an existing schedule.

Run

Runs the schedule.

View Log

Allows you to view a log report for one or more selected schedules.

Enable and Disable

You can enable or disable schedules in the Resources tree. This option is also found in the Properties tab of the Basic and Advanced Scheduling tools.

Duplicate

Creates a new schedule with the same properties in the same folder.

Cut

Allows you to move the schedule from the original folder to a target folder using the paste operation.

Copy

Allows you to create a new schedule by copying an existing schedule.

Copy and update paths

Allows you to copy one or more schedules from one location to another with the internal path references automatically updated to be consistent with the target location. This option is also available for charts, reports, documents, visualizations, pages, workbooks, and HTML files created in App Studio.

This feature is available when the Enable special copy operations check box is selected on the Other page of the WebFOCUS Administration Console Configuration tab

Note: This feature only works when copying schedules between folders that reside on the same hierarchical level in the repository.

Create Shortcut

Allows you to create a shortcut to the schedule.

Delete

Deletes the existing schedule.

Change Title

Allows you to rename the schedule.

Publish and Unpublish

An owner of a schedule can make a schedule available to other members of the top-level folder in which the schedule resides. The schedule owner remains the execution ID. The following table describes the shortcut menu options for published schedules permitted to the different groups associated with a top-level folder.

	Basic	Advanced	Developer	Group Administrator	Manager
Run
View Log
Edit
Enable/Disable
Publish/Unpublish
Security
Hide/Show
Copy/Duplicate
Properties
Change Title
Delete

Note: The default setting is Unpublish.

Hide and Show

Once an owner publishes a schedule, they can elect to Hide the schedule from groups not authorized to create content in the folder. To hide or show a schedule, right-click on a schedule and select the Hide or Show option.

Note: The default setting is Show.

Share

Allows you to share the selected schedule. You can subsequently Unshare the schedule via the same menu.

Share with

Allows you to specify the groups and users with whom you want to share the selected schedule.

Unshare

Allows you to remove sharing on a shared schedule. This option only displays if you have previously shared the schedule.

Security

Allows you to view and modify the ownership of the schedule. Options include: Rules, Rules on this Resource, and Effective Policy.

Properties

Allows you to view properties of the schedule, as well as modify title and summary information. You can also change the name of a schedule using the Properties dialog box. In addition, you can access Security features, including Owner and Sharing.