In my last post I told you how, in the 2010 Quarter 3 release of Time Manager reports could not be sent to a separate Scheduling and Alerts engine. Today I am going to extend that concept and tell you a little about how reports can be scheduled. You can view a five minute video of the process by clicking here.
Offloading reports to another process is only of limited use. However, setting up a report once and then running it at regular intervals becomes much more interesting. It allows you to pass a great deal of administrative work out to the alerts engine.
An example might be a productivity report you run once a month on the third of each month for the previous month. Instead of having to remember to open Time Manager, select the report, select what data to appear on the report and run it, you can now set this up as a scheduled report and have it delivered to your inbox automatically.
The video will show you more about how scheduling of reports works.
Next time I will tell you about distribution lists and some of the other alert functions which do not rely on reporting.
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