BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Managing instances

To view or manage instances, go to the History page for the object. That page lists the scheduled instances and the output instances for an object:

• Scheduled instances will have a status of Recurring or Pending. The system has not yet run these instances, and the instances do not contain any data yet.
• Output instances, that is, actual report or program instances, will have a status of Success or Failed, which indicate whether they were run successfully:
  • A report instance contains actual report data.
  • A program instance stores the program's standard out and standard error in a text output file.

From the History page, you can also choose to delete, run, pause, and refresh instances. See Managing and viewing the history of instances.

To manage storage space, it is good practice to limit the number of possible instances for an object, or to provide a time limit for the instances. See Setting instance limits for an object.