Excel Workbook in Background Processing

Hello,
I have more than 10 queries in an Excel Workbook, all of them are using the same variable and this variable is filled by Exit. The only thing that user need, is Refresh all queries.
The time of the query execution is very long, so, we want to schedule this Workbook.
Is it possible?
Thanks,
Marcelo

You can use Information Broadcaster to schedule the workbooks to run in the background and email to users.
Another option is to use the Reporting Agent to fill the Olap Cache for the individual queries used in the workbook, since the queries are cached when the users access the workbooks execution will be fast.
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