Include attachment (report results) in body of email

Can I send a Business Objects report in the body of an email (inline) rather than an attachment? I have researched this but have been unable to find an answer.

Maybe I am not asking the right question… :oops:

WebI XI3


REB01 :us: (BOB member since 2004-11-29)

You can send a report in the body of an email using a Publication. Set the output format as “mHTML”, destination as “Email”, and the body of the email as “%SI_DOCUMENT_HTML_CONTENT%”.

Joe


joepeters :us: (BOB member since 2002-08-29)

[Moderator Note: Moved from General Discussion to XI Scheduler]


Marek Chladny :slovakia: (BOB member since 2003-11-27)

Thanks Joe –

In my scheduler my schedule output formats are Webi, CSV, Excel and PDF, what am I missing?


REB01 :us: (BOB member since 2004-11-29)

This isn’t available with the regular scheduler – you have to create a publication.


joepeters :us: (BOB member since 2002-08-29)

OK-- back again.

It is my understanding that a Publication can only be associated to someone who is a Business Objects user or that has access to it. Is our understanding incorrect, if so, guidance appreciated. If it is correct, is there an alternative?

Unfortunately, the data we are trying to send is going outside our company to people who do not have Business Objects.


REB01 :us: (BOB member since 2004-11-29)

You can use publications to send emails to external email addresses.


Nick Daniels :uk: (BOB member since 2002-08-15)

Can you associate a specific prompt value for the report to that email address?


jslater.sbi (BOB member since 2012-03-09)

[quote:a17d0459f7=“jslater.sbi”]Can you associate a specific prompt value for the report to that email address?
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Because Publications are automated they don’t really work with prompts, which if you think about it are really a manual intervention in the running of a report. Welcome to B:bob:B!


Nick Daniels :uk: (BOB member since 2002-08-15)

But you can associate a filter value to use with that email address, which achieves the same (if not better) effect.

Joe


joepeters :us: (BOB member since 2002-08-29)

Look at this link: http://davidlai101.com/blog/2011/11/05/bursting-reports-in-business-objects-to-dynamic-recipients/


Irwin Miller :us: (BOB member since 2002-08-16)

Gurus,

I was able to achieve the task of embedding a report into the email body when it scheduled to their inbox or email ids.

Now, my challenge is to embed a part/block from one report into the email body.

For example
i have 4 charts in one report tab.
using publications i was able to embed all of them into the email body with mhtml format.

now, my question is, is it possible to send only one chart/graph from one report tab into the email body.

please help … !!!


sil_bob (BOB member since 2011-12-06)

So I have used the information shared in this post (Thanks!) and created a publication on WebI 4.0. I have selected mhtml as a format and added %SI_DOCUMENT_HTML_CONTENT% in the message. The publication works fine. Except that it only shows first 4 pages of the 5 page report. Is there any limitation of how many pages it can add to the body of the email?


amitpd78 (BOB member since 2004-09-24)