Testing Jobs

Test

The test screen provides a safe area for reviewing and verifying a ReportWORQ job without concern about sending files to recipients. The left pane of the test screen will display reports that will be created by this job. Begin by selecting the Generate Preview button in or beneath the Report list. If changes are made to the job then the Generate Preview button will appear as an orange triangle to indicate that the current preview is out of date and should be regenerated. Depending on the configuration and use case a job may only create a single file, or it may create many files based on burst settings or parameters that are set to One report per item. This report list will provide the exact list of reports that will be generated based on the job configuration. Individual report outputs can be generated by selecting the Play button on any given report row. 

Once generated several details about the report output are available for review. The General pane on the right-hand side will display information about the contact information (if applicable), the execution time, the status report, and the file that was generated. The user can choose to review the status report for warnings or failures and if generated successfully the report may be downloaded for review. The preview pane that is collapsed on the right-hand side will display a table of contents listing of the report pages, this view is helpful when adjusting the sheet naming, PDF parent bookmark, or sheet order. The bottom section of the right pane will display a preview of each distribution option. For example, a copy of the email message that would have been sent can be reviewed without actually sending the email message. If the report was to be saved to the file system, this preview can be used to determine whether any variables used in the folder path created the expected result. Each distribution option has an additional Send... and Test.. option. The Send option will distribute just this report to the distribution method as if the job were run in the product. If you prefer to review the distribution but not send the report to the production location then choose the Test option and provide a temporary location. This option is useful to review an email message in the user's email client, without having to send the report to the actual recipient or make any changes to the job for testing purposes.