Schedule a data collection job to regularly collect scores.

1. Navigate to Performance Analytics > Data Collector > Jobs and click New.
   You can instead edit an existing data collection job, for example to change the schedule of when the job runs. In this case, navigate to Performance Analytics > Data Collector > Jobs and click the job name.
2. In the Name field, give the job a meaningful name.
   Follow a standard format for naming data collector jobs, such as [PA Indicator] Daily Data Collection, [PA Indicator] Historic Data Collection...
3. In the Operator field, select whether to collect data for an absolute or a relative time period.

   Operator value	Description
   Fixed	Collects data for an absolute time period.
   Relative	Collect data for a period of time that is relative to the time when the job is run.

4. If you selected Fixed as the operator, select the Fixed start date and the Fixed end date.
5. If you selected Relative as the operator, specify the intervals prior to the run time to collect data from.
   If you set relative start 1 and relative end 1 and intervals of "days ago," you collect data only for yesterday.
   1. In the fields Relative start and Relative start interval, set the number and the length, respectively, of time periods in the past to begin to collect data from.
   2. In the fields Relative end and Relative end interval, set the number and the length, respectively, of the last period in the past to collect data from.
      Tip: Most indicators, and therefore most data collection jobs, run Daily. Daily scheduled jobs normally should collect for the most recently completed day. Therefore, they should have both a relative start and relative end of one day ago. Run historical data collection jobs, which have longer collection periods, only once.
      For example, you want to collect scores for a set of several new indicators with a daily frequency, all using the same indicator source. First you create a historical data collection job that collects data from two months ago up to the day before yesterday. For this job, enter 60 in Relative start and days ago in Relative start interval. Enter 2 in Relative end and days ago in Relative end interval. Set the Run field to On Demand. Click Execute now and run this job once, to collect the initial scores.

      Create a second job with relative start and end of 1 day ago and set the Run field to Daily. Activate this job to collect the scores for yesterday and all future scores for the day before the job is run.

6. Fill in the Job parameters, as appropriate.

   Job parameter	Description
   Run as	Select the user that runs this scheduled job. The data collection job does not use the permissions of this user. ACLs and business rules do not apply to data collection jobs. Any user can run the job. However, if you have enabled domain support but do not configure domains for this job, the records retrieved from the indicator source respect the domain of this user.
   Run as tz	Select the time zone that the queries use when they are executed from the job. Use the reporting time zone of your company if one exists. By default the System time zone is used. This time zone determines what day is "Today" for conditions like [[Opened][on][Today]].
   Active	If selected, as it is by default, the data collection occurs at the scheduled date and time.
   Run	Select the schedule for collecting the data. Choices are: Daily Weekly Monthly Periodically Once On demand If you are creating a historical data collection job, schedule the job to run On demand.
   Day	If Run is Weekly, specify the day of the week. If Run is Monthly, specify the day of the month. To collect at the end of the month, set for day 1 and set Time to soon after midnight. This setting collects data for a completed month regardless of the length of the month.
   Repeat Interval	If Run is Periodically, specify the amount of time between scheduled data collections, in days and hour.
   Starting	If Run is Periodically or Once, specify the date and time of the first scheduled data collection.
   Time	Time that the job runs, on 24 hour clock. Field appears after Active is selected. Time based on the time zone for your user session, not the Run as tz time zone. Generally set for an hour between midnight and 6 am at your company, to collect the last complete period. For example, if you are in New York and want to collect data at 5 am for your company that is on Los Angeles time, set the time to 08:00:00.
   Collect	Data collection jobs have separate steps for collecting scores and for collecting text analytics. Select one of: Scores only Text index only Both scores and text index (default) For more information, see Set up text analytics.
   Conditional	If checked, the data collection occurs only if certain conditions are met.
   Conditions	If Conditional is selected, write a script that specifies under what conditions the job is run.

7. Right-click the form header and select Save.
8. In the Indicators related list, click Edit and select the indicators that this job collects data for.
   Important:

   • Include at least one indicator for the job. Otherwise, the job cannot return any results.
   • To help keep jobs maintainable, try not to associate an indicator with more than one active collection job unless you have a clear use case. If you are trying to get real-time data, consider using a real-time indicator.

   Note: The data collection job produces one database query for each indicator source for the associated indicators. Thus the data for all indicators that share an indicator source represent the same point in time.
9. Click Submit.