SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2944146 - Cannot run publication: Slots are unavailable for the selected time range. Your schedule may not be successful. Do you still want to continue? in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

Symptom

  • When creating a Publication and click Ok the following message show up
    Slots are unavailable for the selected time range. Your schedule may not be successful. Do you still want to continue?

Environment

  • SAP Analytics Cloud 2020.8.15 or Higher 

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Open a story
  2. Click on Schedule Publication
  3. After clicking ok you will get the error message

Slots are unavailable for the selected time range. Your schedule may not be successful. Do you still want to continue?

Cause

  1. While checking the number of total licenses on SAC
  2. Navigate to SAC Application menu-> System->Monitor (You need the right privileges for this to view)
  3. A Specific number of BI and Planning licenses will be shown 

5 % of ther number of licenses is the number of Pubiction you can run in one hour
check the following graph

Resolution

Run the publication in a different timeframe.

Note: Each individual view is counted as a separate publication.  If your publication has 5 views, then that will count as 5 publications.

See Also

https://blogs.sap.com/2020/06/05/scheduling-publications-number-of-publications/

Keywords

SAC, Schedule Publication , KBA , LOD-ANA-SCH , SAC Story Scheduling and Publication , Problem

Product

SAP Analytics Cloud 1.0