Email Alerts setup

nverma

Hello,

I have a quick question: For one of our clients. I am trying to implement a e-mail alert. Basically, an E-mail will be sent to a pre-defined e-mail address at the end of every month. A template will be used as the body of the e-mail and the e-mail will contain an attached copy of a particular report. The report needs to be saved as a PDF format.

Any ideas how I can implement this.

davmac1

You could implement bullzip to print to pdf and then use code to send the email.
If you need it to happen automatically, use the job queue - assuming you are version 5.

nverma

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Is there a tutorial as to how I can implement this functionality using BullZip. I tried googling it and I found this.

http://mibuso.com/blogs/ara3n/2008/08/

But I am still not sure how to do it step by step.

Also, our client is using NAV 5.

davmac1

It works fine on NAV 5.
Since this is a free contribution, there is no tutorial.
There is a huge thread on Mibuso about this which can give you more tips.
Basically you are using automation to provide the file name to be used by bullzip, then running the report.

nverma

I was doing a bit of research regarding BullZip. Only 10 users can use it since its only for personal use. However, if we install it on a server it will count the number of users by taking the number of people logged on to the server. Lets say there are more than 10 people logged on to a server at a given moment, what would happen?

ppavuk

you can get a commercial version (http://www.biopdf.com)

User License
1 user $29 per user
2-9 users $24 per user
10-49 users $19 per user
50-199 users $14 per user
200+ users $9 per user

It is probably cheaper than spent couple of hours to fix free version issues.

nverma

Sorry this might seem like a stupid question. I installed BullZip and set it as a default printer. I imported the file, and compiled it. When I try to run the form. It goes through a list of Customers and I can see this little BullZip PDF printing dialog box. It looks like it is working or it is doing something in the background. However, I cant find the files that were printed. I went to the location that I saved the files in and nothing is there. Any idea what I might be missing??

davmac1

You have to set the parameters in bullzip then call the report program.
If you are already doing that, then post the code you are using.