Schedule Reports
This article provides all information about scheduled reports in Syskit Point.
Scheduled Reports are available in the Security & Compliance plan and higher tiers. See the pricing page for more details.
When you manage permissions and workspaces in your Microsoft 365 tenant, creating reports, sharing them, or saving them for future reference might take up a lot of your time – that’s where the Scheduled Reports in Syskit Point can help!
With the help of this feature, you can do the following:
create Scheduled Reports from views and reports generated in Syskit Point, meaning that all filters you define when generating a report or view are applied when sending the scheduled report
Set up automatic sending of PDF or XLSX reports to one or more email recipients in your tenant
Setup automatic saving of PDF or XLSX reports to a document library in a SharePoint site
Define how often and when to send Scheduled Reports
Create a Subscription - group of Scheduled Reports that share the same schedule frequency and delivery options
Users with the following roles assigned in Syskit Point can create Scheduled reports:
Syskit Point Admins
Syskit Point Global Viewers
Syskit Point Collaborators
To learn more about roles in Syskit Point, see the following article.
Schedule a Report
In Syskit Point, it is possible to schedule:
All reports, except the Site Analytics report
All views available on the overview screens – Sites, Microsoft Teams & Groups, and the Users overview screen
For example, in the picture below, a generated Permissions Matrix report is shown. Here, you can find the following options in the side panel:
Schedule Report (1)
Schedule Report options icon (2), which, when clicked, opens a drop-down menu with the following options (3):
Create Subscription
Add to Existing Subscriptions
Please note! One subscription can contain multiple reports, but they all share the same schedule and delivery options.
The Schedule Report button opens the Schedule Report dialog displayed in the picture below. Here, you can see and do the following:
Create New Subscription (1) option is selected by default
Define the Subscription Name (2) – Subscription name is visible as the email subject in case the reports are delivered via email
Select the Schedule frequency (3) – you can choose between three options Daily, Weekly, and Monthly schedule
Select the delivery method Scheduled Reports (4) – at least one of the options needs to be selected
Send report to e-mail – here, you can choose recipients with the help of the people picker and define a custom message that will show in each delivered email
Upload report to SharePoint Document Library – here, you can paste the document library URL directly from your browser
Click the Report Settings tab (5) to define per-report
Please note! Schedule & Delivery options are defined per Subscription.
In the Report Settings tab, you can:
Define the name of the attachment (1) that will be sent via email or uploaded to a document library
Choose between two file formats (2):
XLSX
PDF
Click the Schedule Report button (3) to create your first subscription with a Scheduled Report
Please note! Report options are defined per each report in the subscription separately.
A confirmation dialog appears. Close it or use the View Subscriptions button to open the Scheduled Reports screen.
Manage Scheduled Reports
You can manage all Scheduled Reports on the dedicated Scheduled Reports screen. You can access it in one of the following ways:
Click the View Subscriptions button after you create a subscription
Navigate to the Report Center and click the Scheduled Reports button
Click the Scheduled Report option in the user profile menu
The Scheduled Reports screen enables you to:
Choose between All Subscriptions (1) and My Subscriptions view
View defined subscription and report settings (2), such as who created the subscription, when it was last run, frequency, delivery method, and other
Select a subscription (3) to perform actions
Perform an action on the selected subscription (4):
Send the subscription manually
Edit Subscription settings
Pause or Start a paused Subscription
Delete the Subscription and all associated reports
View additional information (5), such as the link to the defined document library or a list of emails for all defined email recipients
If you select a single report inside a subscription, two options are available:
Preview (1), which opens the report which will be sent or uploaded
Delete (2), which removes the selected report from the parent subscription
Scheduled Reports Delivery
By default, Scheduled Reports are sent once a day. As mentioned, reports can be delivered via email or uploaded to a document library. The results for both cases are displayed in the pictures below.
To change the time when the Scheduled Reports are delivered, use the Scheduled Reports section in the E-mail Settings (1).
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