Reports should not expire

I agree… but I also understand where they are coming from… when I took over the full administration of our systems… I had hundreds of pages of scheduled reports (in the old report manager… back when never was an option).

More than half of them were flagged with failures (since the recipients no longer worked for us, and their emails were disabled) and most of the other half were out-dated… it took me almost 3 months to dedicate time every day to go through every report, vet it to make sure the report was even valid, confirm valid reports were still needed, and clean up that mess.

I would imagine it’s a big strain on the servers to have a bunch of reports that people forgot about trying to send forever (and many of them bouncing /.failing).

But I do agree, 1 year is too short… and takes a lot of overhead to keep critical reports running…  Maybe a happy medium? Allow longer schedules, but IF the report fails, send an email to owner.. if it fails a few more times, send a reminder… if it fails too many time (TBD what that amount should be), archive the schedule… This way, we can have longer running reports, without creating a potential “infinite” cycle….

I second Jen’s comment.

I agree, with the caveat that there should still be some limitation. I think one year is definitely too short. Maybe having a longer option (like 2 to 5 years) or if there is an option for “never expire” limiting the number of projects that a user/company can have set up that way (and potentially limiting it to admins that can set up never expire). 

I can see that as being an issue if you have many people setting up scheduled reporting. Maybe have a dedicated calendar event to review automated schedules once a month. I have to look at our’s once a month anyway because the automated scheduling for fiscal calendars does not work at all! We are on a retail 4-5-4 calendar and Adobe WILL NOT fix the monthly to send by a 4-5-4 calendar. They only send by gregorian calendar, meaning 1st of the month through the end of the month. Its not that they can’t fix it, they WON’T fix it. Needs to be another thread.