Generating scheduled reports
Scheduled Reports send FileWave report results to one or more email addresses on a schedule, so an admin does not have to sign in and run the same report manually. They can be used for license reports or inventory Queries.
How to create Scheduled Reports
- In FileWave Central, select Assistants → Scheduled Reports… from the menu bar.
- Click the "+" in the lower left of the window to create a new scheduled report. Existing reports appear in this same list.
- Choose a Report Type:
- Licenses: sends the information listed in License Management, including VPP licenses and manually created licenses from Filesets or inventory.
- Query: sends the results of a selected inventory Query.
- Enter the email address that should receive the scheduled report.
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Multiple Email Addresses To send to multiple email addresses, separate the addresses with a semicolon. |
- Enter a Mail Subject and the Email content/body so recipients know what the scheduled report is for.
- If you are signed in to FileWave Central as the Superuser, the Owner section is visible. The selected owner affects scheduled-report results because the report runs with that user's permissions.
Example: If Greg Stevens owns a report for all devices but does not have permission to view iOS devices, iOS devices will not appear in that report.
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If you are not the Superuser you will NOT see the Owner section at all; as you can see in the screenshots below, only the Superuser can assign a user to reports. |
- After you select an Owner, set when the report should be sent:
- Every day
- skip weekends
- Every week on
- Every month on
- Every day
- Optional: if the Report Type is set to Query, select which inventory Query should be sent.
- Click OK to save the scheduled report. You can then view existing reports or send the report immediately.
Scheduled Reports Results
Scheduled reports are sent as tab-delimited text files that you can open or import into spreadsheet and text-editing tools.
Query Results
