Sometimes, it might be useful to define the execution of a task in the background. That's the case, for example, when printing a long-running report. This recipe will show you how to do this easily.
To get ready for this recipe, the following conditions must be met:
The Pentaho user must be successfully logged in to the Pentaho User Console.
The user role must have the Schedule Content operational permission assigned.
The user must be in the Browse Files perspective.
Perform the following steps to filter through a set of existing schedules:
From the Browse Files perspective, navigate the Pentaho solution looking for the report that you would like to execute as a background task. As an example, go to
/Public/Pentaho BA Cookbook/Pentaho Reporting
and look forPentaho Report Sample 11
.Click over the report you have identified. Look at the File Actions menu and click on Run in background… (see the following screenshot for details...