IBOT Conditional request

Hello,
I have a report scheduled with a conditional request First day of fiscal month. The condition applied is a SQl statement which says the request will return some value if todays date is equal to first day of fiscal month.
Now if I schedule it every friday with this condition will it retun any value? Correct me If I am wrong, when we give conditions like this we don't need to schedule it right!!
Please advice me on this,Thanks.
Cheers,
- Abhi

Think of it this way. Suppose you manually fired your report in Answers everyday. What would happen? Due to your filter, the report would return no rows except for the first day of your fiscal month, right? Scheduling an iBot just replaces you having to do this manual task everyday. The results would be the same. So as Turribeach said, schedule it to run everyday and on the day there is data, the report will reflect this.
HTH,

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