Export Dashboard Schedule
In RubiSight, you can export a dashboard using the Export functionality. Refer to Exporting a Dashboard.
You can not only schedule this export, but also send the dashboard pages as PDF via email, at a stipulated date and time.
Notes: | - You can schedule to export the dashboard immediately after creating the schedule.
- You can select any or all dashboard pages for export.
- Each page is saved and sent as a separate PDF file.
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To schedule a dashboard export, first, open the dashboard in Edit Mode. For this, follow the steps given below.
- Open the Workspace that includes your dashboard. Refer to Changing Workspace.
- On the home page, click Dashboards. Recent dashboards for the selected workspace are displayed.
- Hover over the dashboard and click View. The dashboard is displayed in the view mode.
- To display the dashboard in the edit mode, click Edit Mode in the top-right corner on the function pane.
To schedule the Dashboard export, follow the steps given below.
- On the function pane, in the top-right corner, click the ellipsis (
). The dashboard tasks menu is displayed.

- From the drop-down list, click Schedule. Schedule window is displayed.
- Click Create New Schedule. Scheduled exports, if any, are displayed in this window.

Create Schedule page is displayed. It contains two parts.
- Schedule Details – to schedule export of the dashboard by schedule type, date, and time
- Send Email – to schedule export of the dashboard via email at the scheduled date and time

- In the Schedule Details section, Enter a suitable Name and Description for your Schedule.
- Enter Schedule Type. You can select from the Schedule Type options given in the table below.
Select Schedule Status.
Schedule Type | Description | Related Fields |
Send Once | For one-time export of the dashboard. | |
Daily | For daily export of the dashboard. | |
Weekly | For weekly export of the dashboard. | - From Date
- To Date
- Day of the week (only one day can be selected)
- Time
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Monthly | For monthly export of the dashboard. | - From Date
- To Date
- Date of the month (only one date can be selected)
- Time
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Send Now | For immediate export of the dashboard (after creating the schedule). | - No selectable fields available.
- The Save button at the bottom of the Send Email section changes to Save and Send.
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Note: | Make sure that all schedule Time is created as per the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) format. |
You can either keep the schedule Active or make it Inactive.
Schedule Status | Active Checkbox | Description |
Active | Selected 
| - This is the default setting.
- All scheduled exports are active by default.
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Inactive | Cleared 
| You can make a schedule inactive if you want to create it now but implement it later. |

In the Send Email section, you can create an email to be sent to the recipient(s). Here, you can add recipients and add or remove dashboard pages from the list which you want to export. The Send Email section contains two parts.
- Enter the recipient's email addresses in the To field. (mandatory)
- Enter the email addresses of other recipients in the Cc and Bcc fields.
- Enter the email address to which the recipient(s) can revert (in response to the email) in the Reply To field.
Click Next. The Messages & Attachments menu is activated.

Notes: | - Make sure that the email addresses you enter are registered in the specified domain.
- On receiving the email, if you click Reply or Reply All button, the email address entered in the Reply To field is automatically populated as the primary recipient.
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In the Messages & Attachments section,

Option 1: Radio options to select attachment as PDF or PPT.
PDF option is set by default.
Option 2: When PDF option is selected, Merge as Single File
option is displayed with checkbox to set enabled/disabled. When enabled, the
PDF is sent as attachment with single PDF file with dashboard name, with all
pages combined as single PDF and when disabled the PDf for individual pages
(with respective Page Names) are sent as attachments.
Option 3: Select the dashboard pages that you want to export
via email.
Click Save. The email is scheduled to be sent at the scheduled date and time.
Notes: | - All available pages of the dashboard are selected for export by default.
- If you do not want to export any of the pages, you can remove them by clicking the Close Icon (
). - By clicking inside the Dashboard Pages field, you can also see a list of all pages in the dashboard. You can select any or all pages to export.
- All selected pages appear in the Dashboard Pages field.
- You can move to the beginning of the Send Email section for reconfiguring the email by clicking Back.
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You are navigated back to the Schedule window. In the window, you can see a list of all the created schedules as shown below.
You can view
Schedule name |
Schedule trigger, which is the schedule type
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Schedule description, Whether an email has been generated to schedule an export
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Actual status of Schedule (Active/Inactive)
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The scheduled next run date |

Notes: | - For Send Now type of schedules, the Status is always Inactive since the email has already been triggered.
- For Send Once type of schedules, the Status becomes Inactive as soon as the email is triggered.
- For Daily, Weekly and Monthly types of schedules, the Status becomes Inactive after the last date (To Date) has lapsed.
- The number of Active schedules is displayed in the Dashboard Tasks Menu under Schedule in the function pane on the top right corner of the dashboard.
- You can view and use the Edit or Delete Schedule options by clicking the vertical ellipsis (
) corresponding to a schedule.
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Dashboard
pages set with Scale to Fit as Width or Standard are having some
limitations
while exporting PDF/PPT. Same applies to PDF/PPT sent as an attachment in dashboard
schedule.
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