General Settings

The General section for the Job Properties includes the Description, Action, and Status sections. This is where you can set and modify the most general settings for the distribution.

General Section Properties

Setting Description
Description Describes the actual job. The details are written by the Administrator.
Action

Determines if it will be sent by email or saved on the network.

  • If the action is set to Export and Save on Network Drive, then the system will require entering a network path, where a set of new folders will be created automatically by the job: one folder for each user selected in the Users and Groups tab. Each folder will contain a copy of the reports being run, with the respective users credentials. You are also able to use Global Variables that will be resolved based on the Admin context.

    Example

    For example, when you have a Network Path set as '\\SERVER\MonthlyReports\@@CurYear\@@CurMonth ', this will automatically generate a folder '2023' and another folder '6' within the root folder 'MonthlyReports'.

    Note

    Uppercase and lowercase letters (A-Z, a-z), digits (0-9), and the underscore (_) symbol cannot be attached at the end of a global variable name.


  • If the action is set to Export and Email, the reports will be run with each users credentials and sent out via email to the respective users.
Status

Enables or disables the subscription.

Tip

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