[RS+AS] Trying to email multiple attachments in one email

[bvandenhende]

Hi,

I have a few reports that i would like to send via email.
At the moment these reports are deliverd in 35 seperate emails.
I would like to send 1 email with multiple attachments (PDF). Is that possible?!

thanx

[kommireddy]

HI,

Assuming that you are using Cognos 8 MR2,  it might be possible by creating a job with added reports and scheduling, Not sure though..

[larsonr]

Are you using the SDK?  One option is to leverage Cognos 8.2 and have it save the reports to a file system.  Then you could write a little application using Java that could pick up those reports on a schedule and email them.  I haven't tried to email many reports as an attachment to one email, but I do know that you can write Java to add attachments to a single email.  The only thing you would have to check is how much data is too much, and can your recipients handle having that many attachments via your mail client.

Another thought would be to consolidate the data coming from those reports into a multi-page report.  Granted 35 is a bit much, there may be opportunity to get the data in a fewer pages?  Then have this one report run as one job from Event Studio?. 


Hope this helps and maybe helps foster other ideas.