The Scheduled Email of Report [sysauto_report] table extends sysauto. Earlier in the chapter, we saw how the platform will run jobs automatically, given a time and something to do. A scheduled report has several options in order to make it easy to automate report distribution.
One common use of a scheduled report is to produce a report showing the activity of yesterday or last week. This is very easy with the relative time conditions. Let's build a list to show what Maintenance tasks were created yesterday, to give the incoming team a heads-up on what happened.
The quickest way is to create a report in the reporting interface:
- Navigate to Reports > Create New. Set the following information:
- Report title