Hello,

I have a question. Currently I do lot of report bursting with Report Caster and up to now haven't had to do the following and want to know if anyone has.

I have a need to send an HTML output to certain email addresses dynamically (again I do this now) BUt the thing now is that instead of sending ALL of the attachments to the email address at the same time, I want to be able to send an email address MULTIPLE emails - that is, each time I send an email to my email address if it would normally have 5 attachments to it because it meets the selection criteria, I now what to send 5 email messages with only one attachment in each email.

This may be very easy to do but I haven't done it, so if anyone knows how to do this that would be very helpful, thanks so much.

Paul Mueller
St. Louis University
314-977-2397
muellerp@slu.edu

I've done this before, more for testing that anything else. Didn't want the emails to go to the intended, but wanted a realistic run.

What we did is to load a distribution list with the same address, but obviously different values.

You will then have to match the values in your bursted report.

Hope this helps

Paul,
I suppose you have a file somwhere which has the value/email-address pairs for your bursted report and you also have a program that creates the PCHOLD file, the name of which you entered in the Distribution Tab of the RC scheduler. Something like this:

  
TABLE FILE EMAIL
PRINT DEST
BY VALUE
ON TABLE PCHOLD
END

If you then have the same e-mail address for more than one value, you should be getting as many e-mails as values.

There is a setting for this issue, you can force the fact to combine the attachments to the same address into one mail or separate mails.
I just can't remember where to do that.
Must be in the manual...

The setting you are looking for that governs if the emails are together or separate when going to one address is in the Report Caster configuration. It is called PACKET EMail. At least on version 7.1.3 it is on the General Tab, under User Info.

This changes the behaviour for all of Report Caster. So you couldn't have it one way for one report, and different on another.

thank you - i will let out IT staff know ...

paul