Data Tracking with Scheduled Webis

Using XI R3
Is this a true statement: "Data tracking will not work with scheduled webi documents or webi documents in scheduled publications because the scheduling process does not 'save' a document that it can then use as a reference for the next iteration"?
If I refresh the documents manually daily with tracking on and save them, then schedule the publication after that with the 'refresh on open' property turned off in the publication, that seems to be the only way to accomplish it.
My publication, by the way, produces pdf versions of the webis distributed vai email.
This requirement to manually run the webi documents every day really defeats the whole advantage of scheduling.

Hi Stephen.
Lets understand why data tracking requires a "save report".
When data tracking is enabled. current version of report output is compared with immediate previous version of report output. Also data tracking requires report to run and saved as HTML format. It does not work in PDF format.
In case of scheduled report, it will not work as report instance is not saved. However if you enable "Automatic Data Tracking" it seems to be possible.
I would suggest reading "Data tracking modes" Part from webi user guide. You shall get all your ans.
--Kuldeep

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How are the structures, e.g. gltrans-workType, defined in the Web service?The structure is made up of nested Java Beans, but this does not mean that the
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>
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