Timezones with Coefficient

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With businesses and teams dispersed all around the globe, coordinating data and tracking updates is more important than ever. Inevitably the Time Zone topic will come up in conversations. The most common is the coordination of calendars and deadlines for reports. And at Coefficient, we LOVE 😍reports.
Time zones come up every day with our users, what time is this Import refreshing, when is this Snapshot set to generate, what time should that Daily Summary reach my inbox - what if the person who creates these Imports, Snapshots, and Automations are in a different Time Zone than me? đŸ€Ż

Scheduled Imports

What is a Scheduled Import?

Scheduled Import's Timezone

Automated Snapshots

What is an Automated Snapshot?

Automated Snapshots Timezone

Automations

What is Automation(s)?

Daily/Weekly Screenshot's Timezone

Scheduled Imports

What is a Scheduled Import?

With Coefficient, you can schedule your imports to ensure your data is refreshed from the source at designated times and dates.

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Scheduled Imports will refresh according to the Time Zone setting on the user’s computer. đŸ’»

 

What does that mean?

  • If a user sets this import (Actor/Film) to refresh daily at 9 AM and his computer is set to Eastern Time Zone (ET), then this import will refresh every day at 9 AM ET each day.
  • This also means if the user goes on a trip to California, which is Pacific Time Zone (PT) then the import will still refresh at 6 AM PT/ 9 AM ET.

 

Automated Snapshots

What is an Automated Snapshot?

An Automated Snapshot, is a copy of your Coefficient import taken on a specific date at a specific time. Each time a new Snapshot is created, a new tab is generated in your workbook showing the data at the time it triggered the snapshot.

Automated Snapshots (set to Daily and Weekly) are generated at 1 a.m. following the creator’s time zone. â°

 

What does that mean?

If a user sets a Snapshot to generate “Weekly” and “at the start of Monday”, AND the user’s computer is set to Pacific Time, THEN Coefficient will create a new Snapshot of the user’s import first thing Monday morning (1 AM Pacific Time).

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Automations

What is Automation(s)?

Automation(s) are notifications you can set up in Coefficient based on activity and changes in your data import. Automations can be sent out either via email or sent to a Slack channel.

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Daily/Weekly Screenshot Automations follow the import creator’s timezone. 🔔

 

What does that mean?

If you create an import (Pacific Time) and your colleague creates an Automation (Eastern Time) to capture a screenshot of your import's data, the Data Automation will trigger based on the alert creator’s time zone - Eastern Time in this example.

For Automations set to trigger “When data changes” OR “When a new row is added” at a specific time, it will also follow the creator's timezone.

 

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