Email reports

Is there a way to automatically receive and email with a Report ?
For example,
Share Report “LSP_VA_TDKSC_Org_Metric-0506__Report_August_2015 “ is generated monthly and emailed to me on mm/01/2015.

The only parameter changes are:
1) Reporting period will be: (mm - 1) /01/2015 thru (mm – 1) / (last day of month) / 2015
2) Filename changed from August_2015 to September_2015, etc.

Comments

Joe Prevo's picture

Thu, 09/03/2015 - 12:18

This is a good suggestion but it would require several enhancements to be supported. First, we would need to add the ability for computed fields. For example, possibly something like ${FirstDayOfThisYear}, ${FirstDayOfLastMonth}, ${LastDayOfLastMonth} , etc. We will definitely have to look into how to deal with that and what possible values would make sense. We have created DM-639 to address this part of your request.

The second issue is the ability to schedule the report to run at repeated intervals. Right now they only run when interactively requested by the user. We have been throwing around the idea of adding a job scheduling system that would allow various features to be scheduled as jobs. We think that reports would make a good candidate for the first feature supported by jobs. We have created DM-640 to address this part of your request.

We are currently working toward the TechDoc 9 release and have already cutoff additional features to add to that release. More than likely these two features will have to wait until the next release.