on 02-24-2012 8:50 PM
Hi,
The report that I want to schedule has hyperlinks to the sub report. My requirement is to schedule the report and send the output as the WebI report to the user's email inbox.
I am able to send the webI as an attachment with .wid extension. When I double click on the attachment from my inbox, the window pops up and asks to select a program to view the attachment.
I don't know which program to select and how it works.
In one of the forum I saw it is possible to send an URL link of the report to the user's email inbox and on clicking that URL link the WebI report opens.
I am not sure what to do to send an URL link when setting the parameters to schedule a report . Can any one please guide me on how to do this.
Thanks in advance.
Lavanya,
You can send the link in the email. While scheduling a report, in "Formats and Destinations", select your output format and Destination and in the "Destination Options and settings" you can enter To, From fields and in the message box you can selcect "Viewer Hyperlink" from the dropdown that is just beside message field.
Hope this helps
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Hi,
I followed the steps that you suggested and scheduled the report. When I received the email it shows something like below
On clicking this link the browser open but says " Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage ". Do you know why the link is not meaningful? Do I need to do any setting for this?
Thanks in advance.
Edited by: Lavanya611 on Mar 2, 2012 5:41 PM
As you have scheduled the report as Web Intelligence Document (wid) format, the file can be opened using WebI Rich client. For this, the BO client components have to be installed in the client system.
If you schedule the report in excel / pdf / csv format, then the attachment can be viewed in Excel / Adobe reader.
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Hi,
Thank you so much for your reply. Currently WebI Rich Client is not installed in the user's machines. I am looking for another alternative as explained below.
Now say if the report is scheduled and sent to the user's Infoview inbox, but send a notification to the user's email inbox that the schedule is completed and the report is available to view in the infoview.
Please guide me if this is feasible then how to do it.
in this case, you have to schedule the report twice. one to Infoview inbox and another to email. And use event based scheduling. first one should trigger the event after successful completion and the second one should wait for the event to be triggered. the second report can be any light weight report as this is only to schedule a mail and not the report. But I do not like this approach anyway.
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