To Send report result thru email

[Bose]

User wants  to be able to run a report and email it to someone but not have his name as the 'from person' on the email but have it populated with some outlook mailbox they've created like "South Prod". Any help is appreciated.

[snadgir30]

Hi Bose,
I think you can send report output thr' email.
event studio might help you in this.

Although line - user needs to run the report is bit confusing to me.I
assume that you were looking for the same.

[Bose]

hello snadgir,

Thanks for the reply.

I've opened a case with Cognos and here is the solution. But this is not the solution we are looking for. I may log this as enhancement.

Solution :

To change the email address in the from to box you will need to have another user take ownership of the report.

Root Cause:

When a report has been created by a user, they become the owner of the report and hence when they schedule a report to run (e.g. daily), the report will be sent daily via e-mail and the sender will be the report's owner

Solution:

Give the cognos admin user a default email address (say, crnadmin@xyz.com) and as the admin user, take ownership of the report(s) in question

Steps:

1. Log into C8 as an admin user
2. Verify that the e-mail address associated with the admin user is as requested
(in this case, crnadmin@xyz.com) Preferences --> Personal Tab
3. Click on Set Properties of the report you wish to be sent from the admin user
4. Under the General tab, click on "Make me the Owner"

Report will now be sent from the admin user, not the orignal owner/creator of the report.

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