Scheduling

The following scheduling options can be applied to your configured task.

Scheduling Option
Description
Run Now
As soon as the task is configured, run it immediately.
Run Once
Run the task at the scheduled time and then do not run it again.
Run Daily
Run the task at the scheduled time each day. See Daily extractions.
Run Hourly
Run the task every hour of every day.
Note: The sessions to include in an extraction are defined by the session time for each session. The timestamp of a session is the timestamp of the last hit in a session. For example, if you configure an extract for sessions between 1:00 and 2:00, a session that begins at 1:50 and contains a final hit that is recorded at 2:10 is not included.

Depending on the type of extraction, Unica Discover Data Export waits the following time periods:

  • For repeated tasks such as Daily or Hourly task, Unica Discover Data Export verifies that the session indexes were updated at least 1 hour after the end of the configured extract time.
    • If an hourly job is unable to complete in the allotted number of tries, it is skipped and is not reattempted. The next hour, the job is run to collect that hour's data.
  • For ad hoc tasks, Unica Discover Data Export does not attempt an extraction until 30 minutes past the end of the extract time.
  • Run Now tasks do not check the indexes.