When you create a subscription, you instruct Oracle Advanced Support Platform to email, on a periodic basis, certain types of user reports to recipients defined in a subscriber list.
You configure scheduled reports by defining which type of report to send, the frequency with which the report is sent, and to whom the report is sent. You can schedule reports to be sent to one or more recipients.
To create a report subscription:
Log in to Oracle Advanced Support Platform.
The Oracle Advanced Support Platform home page appears.
From the top-level menu, click Reports and then All Reports.
The Reporting page appears.
Click the Reports tab.
The Report List page reappears, displaying all reports or queries, as appropriate.
Locate the report you want to view, then click the report name.
The View Report page appears.
For the relevant report, click More actions in the Advanced Operation column, then click Subscribe to create a subscription to this report.
The Create Subscription page appears.
In the Subscription Title field, enter a name for the report subscription, for example, Jim's daily update of CMS inventory.
From the Report/Query field, select the report or query you want to schedule to be delivered to a subscriber list.
From the Date Period field, select the date period for the report.
From the Schedule Type list, select a schedule for the report. You can choose from any of the following options (you must choose at least one):
Select Daily to send a report on a daily basis. You must select the time of day at which the report should be sent.
Select Weekly to send a report on a weekly basis, You must select the day of the week on which the report should be sent.
Select Monthly to send a report on a monthly basis, You must select the day of the month on which the report should be sent,
Select Quarterly to send a report on a quarterly basis. You must select the day of the month on which the report should be sent.
Select Yearly to send a report on a yearly basis. You must select the day of the month on which the report should be sent.
From the Deliver At field (filtered from your Schedule Type selection), select the time of day.
From the Time Zone field, select the time zone region associated with sending the report.
From the Date Format list, select the date format associated with sending the report.
From the Time Format list, select the time format associated with sending the report.
From the Email Format list, select the format in which to send the report.
Select Archive Report if you want to view reports from the archive from the Subscription Summary page.
The Max Archives field appears.
Enter the maximum number of reports that you want to archive. 10 is the default maximum..
From the Subscribers area, select the report recipients by selecting the appropriate subscriber email list.
Click Subscribe.
Oracle Advanced Support Platform creates the subscription and schedules the report to be delivered to the selected subscribers.