Default Email Options

[Lynn]

I am not an admin and I do not play one on TV....

My users asked if the default option when setting email options be changed to "Attach the report" rather than "Include a link to the report" when scheduling. Oddly, I find the default already is "Attach the report" for every other place you can edit email options *except* via scheduling. If you run with options from Cognos Connection or select email from Cognos Viewer it always comes up with attach the report as the default. I can't imagine why it would be different in scheduling, but it sure is in our installation (10.1).

I don't see anything in the documentation that covers altering this default, only that you can hide the "Attach the report" option entirely.

Any thoughts on what this would take to do?

[CognosPaul]

The email options are generated from the following xts:
..\c10\templates\ps\portal\emailOptions\email_options.xts

In 10.2, the part that needs to be modified is at row 2123. Just do a search for m_ro_emailAsURL.

The logic to decide whether to check the attach or link is a bit wonky, but it should be easy enough to simply override it to always have m_ro_emailAsAttachment checked. Just remember to back it up and restart the service.