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vvvvvvizard
Partner - Specialist
Partner - Specialist

Nprinting Loop Schedule report at a time

Good day Experts

 

I have a Nprinting report that loops through each country , creating multiple excel sheets for each country

The issue is for each country the report needs to run at a different time , is this possible ?

 

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Lech_Miszkiewicz
Partner Ambassador/MVP
Partner Ambassador/MVP

I guess you need to be more precise on your requirement - your query is not precise hence my answer is also not precise...

If your question is if it is possible, then I say - yes it is...

1. option

  • for each country create country filter
  • create dedicated task trigger for each country with assigned filter and "different" time you need to set for it
  • you will basically end up with with as many different tasks as many countries you have.

 

 

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vvvvvvizard
Partner - Specialist
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Hi so are you saying i can still use the "loop" to loop through the country field and implement what you said  ? or ditch the loop on field and create reports for each country and schedule them accordingly ?

Lech_Miszkiewicz
Partner Ambassador/MVP
Partner Ambassador/MVP

Hi... If you implement what I suggested, your "loop" or rather cycle enabled report will be redundant - here is why...

  • what does cycle functionality do?
    • it loops/cycles through available values of dimension to produce individual report based on that selection. If multiple values are present in field you use in cycle the result is multiple reports produces in single task and bundled as a zip (all in one zip) - this is working as designed.
  • what does filter do?
    • it applies selection on field 
  • conclusion:
    • If you want to have report to run 1 at the time applying filter on individual country will result in only this country being in the report hence in this case cycle will be irrelevant as there will be nothing to cycle through other than that one country from filter.

Again - like i said before, we have to be very precise on what we are trying to do? What is the requirement and why?

  • Is your requirement to produce separate reports (1 for each country), just like you would unzip the output of your result from task which you run when using cycle and send this report to group of user (all countries to all users)?
  • Is your requirement to produce separate reports (1 for each country), just like you would unzip the output of your result from task which you run when using cycle and send this report to individual users (where each user may need to receive different country or countries)?
  • Who is a recipient of those reports and what method of distribution do you use?
    • We can use different methods when distribution to folders and different methods when distributing to NewsStand... And also different methods when distributing to emails (if you on version April 2020 or June 2020).

there are few variables and possible solutions, but without clear requirements I dont know which one I need to suggest.

Also to cut the story short, If your question is if you can schedule to run cycle report each value at different time based on trigger schedule, than answer is: No - You cannot!

regards

Lech

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vvvvvvizard
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Each country receives their own report  , each country has their own users who are emailed. Each country receives an email at a different time

The question is in this case can cycle over country field still be used to fulfill the requirement above ? 

vvvvvvizard
Partner - Specialist
Partner - Specialist
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A yes or no answer will suffice and IL mark it as correct