Report schedule every 15mins - File save once a day

General Discussion
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I’m new to Ignition so this may already have been discussed (i didn’t see anything) I want to schedule a report for every 15 minutes from my vision client but only want to save the file once a day. Is that possible? From what I’ve done already it looks like you need to create a schedule for every 15mins and have it save each individual log? Would this be easier thru the gateway event script?

Thanks for any feedback

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Reports can be setup via designer but they are setup in the Gateway meaning you don’t necessarily need any vision client open to have this cron job run.

I would recommend watching these videos -
https://inductiveuniversity.com/courses/reporting-in-ignition/8.1

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Reports that you’re viewing in a Vision or Perspective client are generated ‘on demand’ - scheduled actions attached to a report are totally independent from them being viewed in windows/views.

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I want my scheduled report once a day but broken down in 15min increments. No matter how I try to break it down in the “schedule” tab, I only get 1 hour increments. I’ve tried to set multiple schedules for every 15mins but it overwrites the existing file from my location.

Thanks
Ross

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This statement is not clear to me, I'm not sure what you are asking. If you want to have a client update a report viewer every 15 minutes throughout the day, you don't need to schedule that. A report viewer will execute every time a parameter changes, so as @PGriffith mentioned, the client report viewer is generated on demand and completely independent from a scheduled execution.

Make a single schedule to save the report at the required time to take care of the I want my scheduled report once a day

Then for the 15min increments...

if you are viewing the report in a client, just setup a refresh parameter to toggle every 15 minutes to execute the report.

If you want to save a copy of the report every 15 minutes, you would have to include something like the datetime in the file name so it doesn't overwrite the file over and over.

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Thanks this is helpful

Ross