Interactive Reporting job parameters include runtime values, processing options, and job-output options. Processing and job-output options are defined using cycles and actions. A cycle contains job actions and job filters. Actions define how documents are processed and results are distributed. Filters are the values for the run-time variables. Job cycles are named and associated with jobs.
When importing a job, you specify whether users can create cycles (multiple-cycle jobs) or use only the default cycle (single-cycle jobs).
Single-cycle jobs—Limited to one cycle. The default processing and printing actions are used. All single-cycle job results are processed to file as job output. The job output is listed with the job in the Browse item list.
Multiple-cycle jobs—Processed according to how many cycles are defined. Cycles can be created using processing, printing, and exporting actions. You can design jobs to process as many times as necessary at each scheduled run, each process having different parameters (or filters) and job output options.
Your document queries sales transactions within a region. The region is specified through a variable filter on the query to make the data available to each sales manager on Monday mornings.
When scheduling the job, you can add a job cycle for each region. You can resolve the variable and filter for each run to retrieve numbers for only one region, and e-mail the numbers from each run directly to the regional manager. All job-run cycles are part of one job, which is easier to track and update.