Refreshing POWL Queries in e-Recruiting

Hi All,
I need some help regarding POWL Queries.
If I switch from one link - My Open Requisitions to other link My New Applications, then REFRESH is not happening.
Could you please help me to solve this issue.
Thanks,
Anil

You can schedule the refresh by running a background job, please have a look at the following link for more information:
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/42/d6652b755c1630e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
The following text is qouted from the above SAP documentation link:
POWL_WLOAD (Refresh Active POWL Queries)
You can use this report to update queries. If you schedule the report as a background job, for example, you can update the queries overnight. Users then have access to the updated data when they start work, without having to refresh the data themselves. This is a way of controlling the server load.

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