Creating Scheduled Workbook

Question

Hi friends, I have just started working on Oracle discoverer 9.0.4.
I have already created the normal workbooks and distribute the reports using discoverer viewer.
But I want to know that How I can create the "scheduled workbooks". I have found about opening a scheduled workbook but nothing about their creation ?
Please guide me, what I should do in order to create scheduled workbook.

Answer 1

Hi Nirav
Providing you have the necessary privileges there are two ways to schedule a workbook.
To schedule the current open workbook, from the menu bar select File | Schedule.
To schedule any workbook, from the menu bar select File | Manage Workbooks | Scheduling Manager, then click the button Schedule
At this point you will be in the Schedule Workbook dialog box and you can now set up your scheduling.
If the above options are grayed out then you have either not been granted the schedule workbooks option by your administrator or the scheduling database priviliges have not been granted, or the DBA has disabled the ability to run jobs.
Let's look at the above in turn.
To check whether you have been granted the schedule workbooks option, follow this workflow:
1. Launch the Admin edition
2. From the menubar, select Tools | Privileges
3. Make sure you are on tab called Privileges
4. Use the drop down and select the user who needs to be allowed to schedule
5. Make sure the Schedule Workbooks button is checked
6. Click OK
The database privileges that control scheduling are:
CONNECT
RESOURCE
CREATE PROCEDURE
CREATE TABLE
CREATE VIEW
EXECUTE ANY PROCEDURE
EXECUTE ON SYS.DBMS_JOB
SELECT ON V_$PARAMETER
SELECT ANY TABLE
UNLIMITED TABLESPACE
Here is a database create user script that sets up the privileges required for a user:
create user username identified by password
default tablespace TOOLS
temporary tablespace TEMP
quota unlimited on TOOLS;
grant connect, resource, execute any procedure, select any table to username;
grant execute on SYS.DBMS_JOB to username;
grant SELECT on SYS.V_$PARAMETER to username;
grant create procedure, create table, create view to username;
Also do not try and grant the two SYS privileges via a Role. These must be granted direct to the user.
At the database level, make sure that your DBA has set the database initialization parameter called JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES to something greater than zero, I would recommend 10. If it is zero then you won't be able to schedule. At the minimum, for scheduling it needs to be at least 2.
Hope this helps
Regards
Michael