Send Dashboard Execution to the Background and Create a Snapshot

Beginning in Strategy One (July 2025), you can send dashboard or report execution to the background so that you can perform other operations in Library. Beginning in Strategy One (August 2025), you can send document execution to the background.

When a dashboard, report, or document takes a long time to execute, perhaps because it requires a high volume of live data or extensive joins across different business dimensions, you can choose to Cancel the execution or Run in Background. Running in the background creates a snapshot of the dashboard, report, or document. You can continue to work in Library, such as opening other dashboards or creating content.

When the snapshot is ready for consumption, a notification displays. You can click the message to view the snapshot. You are notified if the snapshot could not be created as well.

Snapshots in the Sidebar of the Library Home Page

You can access snapshots in the sidebar of the Library home page if your administrator enabled the Snapshots component. Snapshots include those created for dashboard/report/document execution as described above and for dashboard subscriptions, document subscriptions, and report subscriptions.

You can Favorite , Edit , and Delete each snapshot.

When you favorite a snapshot, it displays at the top of the Snapshots pane.