Strategy recommends the following best practices when scheduling jobs and administrative tasks in Strategy 10.x:
- Executing simultaneous reports can strain system resources. If there is a large number of reports or tasks that need to be executed on the same time-based schedule, consider creating several similar schedules that trigger fifteen minutes apart. For example, one schedule triggers at 8 AM every Monday morning, and another triggers at 8:15 AM.
- To prevent users from scheduling many simultaneous reports, it is possible to prevent users from scheduling jobs using a given schedule by editing the schedule's Access Control List (ACL). To do this, in the Schedule Manager, right-click the schedule and select Properties, then select the Security tab in the Properties dialog box, and make sure that only users who can use the schedule have Modify or Full Control access to the schedule.
- If there is a need to create multiple similar subscriptions, create them all at once with the Subscription Wizard. For example, you can subscribe users to several different reports at the same time.
- In a clustered system, if it is important which node an administrative task is executed on, use an event-triggered schedule and trigger the event on that node.
- If there are many subscriptions listed in the Subscription Manager, filter the list of subscriptions to only see the relevant subscriptions.
- When a scheduled report/document finishes executing, a message can display in the subscribed user’s History List alerting her that the report is ready to be viewed. The user simply opens the message to retrieve the results. If the request was not completed successfully, the user can view details of the error message. All of these messages are available in the user's History List folder.
- Track the successful delivery of a subscribed report or document with notification. In the Subscription Wizard, select the Send notification to email address check box and specify the email address. A notification email is sent to the selected address when the subscribed report or document is successfully delivered to the recipients.
- Track the failed delivery of subscribed reports or documents with administrator notification. In the Project Configuration Editor, in the Deliveries: Email category, enable the administrator notification settings for failed deliveries.
Article Reference Number: KB441659
