Scheduling is used throughout Pyramid as a means of automatically rendering and, in some cases, distributing certain types of content. You may use scheduling to process your data models regularly, or distribute a weekly newsletter with current data.
What can be scheduled?
Scheduling is used in the following areas:
- Scheduled data model processing: You can process your data models on a scheduled basis, ensuring that Pyramid has the latest data.
- Scheduled publication rendering: You can render and distribute publications on a scheduled basis.
- Scheduled alerts: You can run alert jobs on a scheduled basis.
- Scheduled subscriptions: You can render and distribute discoveries, presentations, and publications on a scheduled basis, based on subscriptions.
Where is Scheduling Configured?
You can configure or edit schedules or subscriptions:
- In-App: From within the relevant app.
- Content Manager: From the content item's Actions Panel in the Content Manager.
- Admin: From the Schedules Manager in the Admin console.
- Click here to learn about setting the schedule.
How is Scheduled Output Shared?
When configuring a publication, alert, or subscription schedule, you can choose where to export the output to and also who to distribute that output to.
Scheduled output can be distributed to:
- Bulletin Board: Distribute the output to a list of Pyramid users or roles through the Pyramid Bulletin Board. Users can download the output from the Bulletin Board, and, if they have permission to do so, can also go to its location in the Content Manager.
- Email: Distribute the output by sending a templated message to a list of email addresses. You can add the output as an attachment if you have the External Bursting license. If not, you can provide a link to the content in Pyramid.
- Phone: Distribute the output by sending a templated alert and subscription messages to a list of users using SMS.
- Channel: Distribute publications, alerts, and subscription output to a channel Webhook.
- Click here to learn about scheduled distribution.