Scheduling and running an email job

In the Email jobs list, click Schedule for the job you want to run. The UNICOM Intelligence Email Scheduling Wizard opens. For more information, see UNICOM Intelligence Email Scheduling Wizard.

The Schedule link is available only when the CreateSchedule.mdd file is available in the following folder:

The Status column provides information on the status for each email job.

Status	Description
Incomplete	The job details are not yet complete.
Ready	The job is ready to be sent or scheduled.
Schedule completed	A schedule’s EndTime was reached. Jobs in this state can be immediately sent or rescheduled.
Scheduled for <date>	The job is scheduled, and provides the schedule information (including time and timezone) by using a tooltip.
Sending now	The email job is being sent.
Schedule sending	The email job is being sent, based on a defined schedule.

The following diagram illustrates the email job status.

When the scheduled job is run, participants are selected based on a combination of properties that are set in the scheduler and in the email job. For the default scheduling wizard, participants are selected using the email job’s selection criteria. Other scheduling wizards can include participant selection criteria that overrides the email job’s criteria. Similarly, when using the default scheduling wizard, the order of participant selection is defined in the email job, either using the First X setting and the specified sorting column or the Randomly selected setting and an automatically generated sorting column.

The random selection of participants uses of NEWID(). If performance is of concern, it might be faster to include a randomized column in the uploaded sample. You could then use the First X setting and use the randomized column for ordering.

The sorting column is selected in the email job using the View Settings dialog’s Sort table by setting. The setting can be overridden by selecting a column header in the participant record table.