Scheduling Report Bursting

How to Create a Report Burst

Report bursting is a batch reporting feature in which a large report is generated offline and internally segmented, or “bursted,” according to users or roles. When each user views this burst report, they will see only the segment targeted to them. Using a scheduled burst action, it is possible to deliver each segment of this report to the appropriate user/role.

A Burst Action can be associated with a task by choosing 'Burst' as the action type and specifying the appropriate property values. The filename you specify for the 'Save to Disk' option, and the attachment for the 'Deliver to Emails' option can include parameters to automatically insert the report name and time/date of report generation.

These parameters use the java.text.MessageFormat syntax, where “{0}” represents the report alias (report name, if no alias is specified), and “{1,date}” represents the time/date of report generation. You can specify a format for the date parameter using the java.text.SimpleDateFormat syntax. Some examples of automatically generated filenames are shown below.

Specified Filename	Generated Filename
myRep_{1,date}.pdf	myRep_Nov 14, 2007.pdf
{0}_{1,date}.pdf	Production_Nov 14, 2007.pdf
myRep_{1,date,MMM-dd}.pdf	myRep_Nov-14.pdf
myRep_{1,date,EEE-h-mm a}.pdf	myRep_Wed-11-49 AM.pdf
myRep_{1,date,yy-MM-dd-HH-z}.pdf	myRep_07-11-14-11-EST.pdf