STEPS TO CREATE A BATCH JOB IN AX 2012 AND SEND THE REPORT AS EMAIL ATTACHMENT THROUGH BATCH JOB.
Presetup’s needs to be done before sending the report as Email attachment
This
document covers the creation of batch job for Customers Report as an example.
Go
to Accounts Receivable > Reports > Customer > Customers Report
Select the Customers range using
select button in the customers report dialog box
Click on Destinations button to
specify the print destination of the report
Various Print Destinations are
available in Print Destination Settings
Print destination as screen is
not allowed for a report runs as batch.
Select the E-mail and enter the
email addresses as shown in the screen shot below. Select the File format from
the different file format options available in the lookup.
Click OK after selecting Print
Destination.
In the Customers Dialog box Click
on Batch Tab.
Select the Batch processing check
box.
Set the following options:
Task Description – Enter a description for the
job.
Batch group - Assign the job to a batch
group.
Batch groups are designed to enable you to run specific types of
jobs on a specific batch server, or to run jobs on batch servers that are
available at specific times. Batch groups are created by system administrators.
Private – Select this check box to
restrict other users from processing your batch job. A private job can be run
only by the user who submitted it, from the Set up batch processing form, and only on the computer where
the user is logged on.
Click Recurrence to
configure a batch job to recur on a specific schedule.
Time zone: Select the time zone.
Starting time: Enter the time that the batch job
starts at.
Starting date: Enter the date
that the batch job starts at.
No end date: select this option to make the job run forever.
End after: Select this option to make the batch
job stop after some occurrences.
Count: Enter the specific number of recurrences.
End by: Select
this option to make the batch job stop at specific date
End date: Enter the last date of the job run.
Minutes: select this option to make the job run for every specified
number of minutes.
Enter the number of minutes in the Count Field.
Hours:
select this option to make the job run for every specified
number of hours.
Enter the number of hours in the Count Field.
Days:
select this option to
make the job run for every specified number of days.
Enter the number of days in
the Per field.
To run the batch job daily from Monday to Friday, click Every
weekday
Weeks:
select this option to
make the job run for every fixed weekly intervals.
Enter the number of weeks in
the Fixed weekly interval field, and then select the days on
which you want the job to run.
For example, if you type 2 in the Fixed
weekly interval field, and then select Monday and Wednesday,
the batch job runs every two weeks on Monday and Wednesday.
Months:
select this option to make the job run for every fixed monthly
intervals.
To set the day of the month and
the frequency of the batch job, select Repeat a specific day by a fixed
interval.
For example, if you enter 1 in
the Day field and 3 in the Per field,
the batch job runs on the first of the month for every three months.
To set a particular day of the
week and the frequency of the batch job, select Repeat a specific
weekday by a fixed interval.
For example, if you select Last in
the Week field and Friday in the Weekdays field,
and then enter 6 in the Per field, the batch job
runs for every six months on the last Friday of the month.
Years:
select this option to make the job run for every year.
Select Repeat once a
year or Repeat a specific weekday a year, and then set the
starting date.
For example, if you select First in
the Week field, Monday in the Weekdays field,
and June in the Month field, the batch job
runs for every year on the first Monday in June.
Click Alerts button.
Configure alerts for a batch job as shown in the following
screen and Click OK.
Once the recurrence and alerts
configuration is done click OK on the Customers Report dialog box.
The below message box pops up
after the batch is created and added to queue.