Pentaho 5.0.1 Send scheduled reports in Email Body

Question

How do I send scheduled email with reports within email body. The documention available is not for version 5.0.1 Community Edition. It appears I may have to use xaction (was hoping not) . However I do not know how to go about it? Help please

Answer 1

Pentaho Provides a sample xaction script (email_inventory_inline_HTML.xaction) that does this. Script is in directory:biserver-ce\pentaho-solutions\bi-developers\reporting\unified-file-format for older versions but under Public/Bi Developer Examples/Reporting/PRPT Samples .

I used the Design Studio to modify the xaction script to suit my needs. The Design Studio was not perfect so I had to recheck the generated xaction script for accuracy,

It work fine.

Answer 2

Here is the documentation for scheduling reports by email.

Please remmember it is the enterprise version (which is better documented) and some details might change in the community version.