The Bursting Task

Bursting is typically used to separate individual records of a report. For example, reports containing information about employees can be burst to print each employee on a separate page. Depending on the output format selected in the process and save task, each record can be sent as a separate email, printed on a separate page, saved as an individual file, etc.

Note that the process and save and email tasks are sub-tasks of the bursting task: 
The Edit Schedule dialog box after adding the Bursting task.

The task order in the image above means:

  1. The report executes
  2. For each record:
    1. Process that record and save it
    2. Send that record via email.

You can use the up and down arrow buttons to move tasks underneath other tasks. For example, selecting the execute task and clicking the down arrow would move it to a sub-task of the bursting task. Clicking the down arrow again would move it down the list of bursting tasks, and then to the position after the bursting task.

When you add the bursting task to the added tasks list, the following dialog appears:
The Burst Conditions dialog box in its default state.

The only required field on this form is Burst condition. To enter a Burst condition, click on the ellipsis ellipses button which brings up the Expression Builder. In this example, the employee ID was selected as the Burst condition. This creates a separate report for each employee.

The Expression Builder dialog box which is used to specify a Burst Condition.

The Burst Conditions dialog box with the employee ID used as the Burst Condition.

 

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