Schedule Publication Roles and Permissions
To be able to schedule a publication, you must have the appropriate permission. As an administrator, you can modify the scheduling settings.
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If you are a BI Admin or an Admin. By default, these roles come with the Schedule Publication permission.
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If the Schedule Publication permission has been assigned to a custom role created.
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If you have a Copy or Edit permission to a story once the Schedule Publication permission is given.
When a user is deleted, all schedules created and owned by the user will be deleted.
When you schedule a story, the output is generated based on the scheduler's data authorization.
Scheduling-Related Permission
| Permission | Description |
|---|---|
| Create | To create a schedule and view or edit the schedule you have created. |
| Manage | To view and modify any schedule that is available in a
tenant. Note As a prerequisite, the user should have Manage
permission on Public and Private files. |
Scheduling Publications Based on Live Connections
While scheduling stories based on live connections, make sure that the following settings are made:
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Enable the Allow live data to leave my network switch from
System 
Administration Datasource Configuration
. For details, see Administration. -
Edit the Connections set up for the corresponding story and from the Advanced Features section, select the Let users set up a schedule for publishing stories option.
For details on setting up live data connections, see Live Data Connections Advanced Features Using the SAPCP Cloud Connector.
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You can schedule a story based on the following data sources:
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SAP BW
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SAP HANA
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SAP HANA 2.0
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SAP HANA Cloud
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Scheduling Publication Based on Imported Data Sources
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You can schedule a story based on imported data sources. For details, see Import Data Connection.
Typically, your schedule will run within 4 to 6 hours. For a story based on live data, the time to run a schedule varies based on the complexity of the query and the time it takes to run the query on the remote system. If you do not receive the publications within 24 hours, please contact SAP Product Support.
Assigning Schedule Publication Permission
To view or assign the schedule publication permission to a role, follow the steps below:
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From the
(Main
Menu), select 
Security 
Roles. -
Select the role to which you want to assign the scheduling permission.
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Navigate to the Schedule Publication permission or type in Schedule Publication in the search bar at the top right corner.
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Select the required permission and click
(Save).
You can also assign Schedule Publication permission to custom roles. To create custom roles, see Creating Custom Roles.
Modifying Schedule Publication Settings
From the
(Main Menu)
System Administration , you can enable or disable the scheduling option completely, or
enable or disable the option of scheduling and sharing publications with non-SAP
Analytics Cloud users.
Schedules of stories based on live connections will always run with the user credentials corresponding to the live connection.