Schedule Report Email Delivery

You can send a copy of your Cloud Analytics report to yourself and your stakeholders on a regular basis by setting up an email delivery schedule.
Required Permissions: Cloud Analytics
Create a scheduled email delivery
There are two ways to schedule emailed reports:
Via a specific Report's page
Via the main Cloud Analytics page
Scheduling via a report s page
Begin by opening a report that you have "Owner" access to. Then, click on the clock icon on the right-hand menu bar:
A screenshot showing an example report
Next, configure the scheduled delivery:
Set other users, you'd like to be included on report's distribution
Optionally, update email's subject and the message to provide more context for recipients
Set up when you'd like to be delivered (using cron expression)
A screenshot showing the Schedule Report Email Delivery modal dialog
If you've included someone who doesn't have access to the report, you will be asked to add that user to the report. You can choose whether to grant the "Viewer" or "Editor" access.
A screenshot showing the Some recipients need access to this report modal dialog
About Cron expressions
The delivery time and recurrence of a Cloud Analytics Report can be configured by using a cron expression. Cron is a time-based job scheduler originally used in Unix-like computer operating systems. A cron expression is a string comprising of five or six fields separated by whitespace. The following table defines the fields of a cron expression and the possible values for each field.
Minute
Hour
Day
Month
Day of the week
0–59
0–23
1–31
1–12 (Jan-Dec)

1= Jan, 2 = Feb, …, 12 = Dec
–6 (Sun-Sat)

0 = Sun, 1 = Mon, …, 6 = Sat
In addition to using these values, every field in a cron expression can also use special characters:
Character
Meaning
Example
*
any
If the day of month field, day of the week field are each set to *, then the schedule starts every day.
-
range
If the day of week field is set to 1-5 or Mon-Fri, then the schedule starts every week Monday to Friday.
,
list
If the month field is set to 5,7,9 or May,Jul,Sep, then the schedule starts every May, July, and September.
/
step
If the month field is set to */3, then the schedule starts during the first month and every 3 months after that: January, April, July, and October.
Schedule intervals lower than daily are not permitted with Cloud Analytics, meaning the first 2 places must be numbers between (–59) and (0–23)
To create a schedule that repeats, use special characters to describe when that schedule is to repeat. For example, the cron expression 30 8 * * Mon-Fri configures a schedule to start at 8:30 AM on every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Select the access level you'd like to give them, and click "Add" to give them access to the report and add them to the list of scheduled report recipients.
A screenshot showing the Some recipients need access to this report modal dialog
Your scheduled report will look something like the image below. From the email, you'll be able to preview the report and open an interactive report in Cloud Analytics, by using the "Open Live Report" button.
A screenshot showing the location of the Open Live Report button
Scheduling via the Cloud Analytics page
You may also schedule emailed reports from the main Cloud Analytics page.
First, find a report that you are the owner of. Then, select the horizontal ellipsis icon in the right-most table column, and select Email Schedule from the drop-down menu.
A screenshot of the Reports screen
From there, configure your report as described above, modifying the message and interval as well as the recipients.
Updating scheduled delivery
To update the scheduled email delivery configuration, open a report that has a configured schedule and select the blue clock, like before.
You may can also update a report's email delivery schedule directly from the Cloud Analytics screen by selecting the horizontal ellipsis, like before.
Subscribing to other people's scheduled deliveries
Using the same methods as above, you can also subscribe to other people's scheduled deliveries.
Deleting scheduled delivery
If you need to delete the scheduled report, please use the Delete button on the "Schedule Report Email Delivery" dialog.
A screenshot showing the Schedule Report Email Delivery dialog
Limitations
A few limitations exist for scheduled reports:
Each report can only have a single email delivery schedule
Preset reports cannot be scheduled. You can clone the report though and schedule it.
The person who scheduled the report is always included in the email
You can't schedule a report to be delivered more than once a day.
Only chart-based reports can be scheduled (i.e. no tables or heat maps at this time)