# Report Schedule Through Scripting **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** scripting\ **Created:** [May 16, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-schedule-through-scripting/106350 "2025-05-16T19:55:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ted\_Schlepuetz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@Ted\_Schlepuetz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ted_Schlepuetz)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-schedule-through-scripting/106350/1 "2025-05-16T19:55:11Z")
Is it possible to change a report schedule through scripting? This was asked a few years ago just checking to see if anything has changed over the versions. > [@Change Report Schedule parameters with scripting](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/change-report-schedule-parameters-with-scripting/43633): > > Hello everyone, I have some reports in Ignition, I wonder if there is a way to change these parameters in highlighted through scripting ? Thanks a lot. ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-schedule-through-scripting/106350/2 "2025-05-16T22:11:55Z")
No, there is not, but if you need **dynamic** scheduling (configurable at runtime by end users) I can think of a few ways to do it. For instance, you could have a gateway timer script that runs e.g. once a minute, checks whether the current minute lines up with a scheduled time (in a database, perhaps) and then uses [`system.report.executeAndDistribute`](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/appendix/scripting-functions/system-report/system-report-executeAndDistribute) to generate your report dynamically. ---
**Author:** ![Ted\_Schlepuetz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@Ted\_Schlepuetz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ted_Schlepuetz)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-schedule-through-scripting/106350/3 "2025-05-16T22:38:29Z")
Looking at that function it states that the thread could get blocked. Is that also an issue when the reports are scheduled through the normal methods? ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-schedule-through-scripting/106350/4 "2025-05-16T22:47:22Z")
No, but you can always wrap your invocation of `executeAndDistribute` in `system.util.invokeAsynchronous` to run it on a new thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ted\_Schlepuetz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@Ted\_Schlepuetz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ted_Schlepuetz)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-schedule-through-scripting/106350/5 "2025-05-19T13:11:27Z")
Do we need to do anything to clean up that new thread after the report is done running? ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-schedule-through-scripting/106350/6 "2025-05-19T15:16:48Z")
No. As long as the function provided to invokeAsynchronous exits, the thread will be automatically cleaned up. Just don't pass any custom functions with an infinite loop or similar. ---
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-schedule-through-scripting/106350/7 "2025-05-19T20:29:05Z")
> [@Ted\_Schlepuetz](#): > > Looking at that function it states that the thread could get blocked. That caution has been there for a while (pre-Perspective). If you run it in a Vision client without calling it through an asynchronous function, it would run in the GUI thread. That blocks anything else happening in the client until it was done. Using a gateway scoped event, as mentioned by @paul-griffith, you can set it to run in a dedicated thread.