Scheduling the Analytics for Manufacturing dataflow refresh
Key Takeaway
Schedule the Analytics for Manufacturing app to refresh every day, at a time outside normal working hours. You set the schedule on the installed app in "App Install History" in Setup.
When you create the Analytics for Manufacturing app from its template, the app includes a dataflow that imports the latest data into CRM Analytics. Account managers rely on the app to track sales agreements, orders, and contracts, so its data needs to stay current. A daily scheduled refresh keeps the app on up-to-date data.
What the app refresh runs
You schedule the app, not each data asset on its own. One app refresh runs all the data assets tied to the app, in the required order. Those data assets include:
- Recipes
- Dataflows
- Connectors
- Einstein Discovery models
- Prediction definitions
The setup step is called scheduling the dataflow, but the schedule is set on the installed app in App Install History. So if the goal is to keep the dataflow current, the answer is to schedule the app refresh. The app refresh runs the dataflow along with every other data asset the app uses.