Email Dynamic List

[ErikAnderson]

I have seen that the functionality to email a dynamic list of emails was added to Nprinting 17 as of April 2020.  (https://community.qlik.com/t5/Support-Updates-Blog/Qlik-April-2020-releases-available-now/ba-p/16934...) 

Does anyone know how?  Did this get removed?  I can't find anything about this. 

I, of course, want to cycle through a field and send emails based off a field in Qlik.  I am sure everyone eventually wants something similar to this.  

[Lech_Miszkiewicz · Accepted solution]

Hi @ErikAnderson 

I guess you are new to NPrinting. We get this question very often on community with similar description as yours and we always answer the same that such functionality does not exist.  There is no cycle & email feature!

Instead you have features which I described here: https://nprintingadventures.com/2020/06/17/small-big-change-dynamic-email-address/

or just go through links in this (and subsequent) topics: https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-NPrinting-Discussions/Qlik-NPrinting-Dynamic-Recipient-List-Proce...

I would also like to encourage you to check other topics before posting question  which was posted just yesterday:

cheers

Lech

[ErikAnderson]

I guess you didn't read the release notes I included where they tout the very feature you state isn't a feature.  I simply wanted confirmation they the release notes were wrong.  Not an insult to my experience or professionalism.  

[Lech_Miszkiewicz]

Sorry @ErikAnderson, There was no insult intention, rather blunt and truthful observation. I have one rule when answering questions on community which is: I test my answers. Whether those are practical examples or knowledge base examples I always double check the source documentation, versions of software and change log for support articles as those can change over time. So back to your observation: I actually did read all release notes and also read links you posted - there is no single word stating "cycle feature for recipients" so please send me screenshot where it states that or anything about "cycle" and I will admit that I have mislead everyone with my comment. What I believe the release notes says though is:

"you’ll have the ability to create dynamic recipient email distributions!"

which relates to:

"Dynamic email CC and BCC You can send emails generated from publish tasks to dynamic lists of recipients in TO, CC, and BCC field. Recipient lists can be created in Qlik NPrinting as new fields or can come from Qlik variables"

So with that in mind release notes are correct, features were delivered as described and are available as you can have recipient list dynamically delivered via variables. I provided link to the help site and I also provided link to blog post which describes this very feature.

By reading documentation and release notes we need to stress that "dynamic" is not the same as "cycle" and I am highlighting that on purpose as many other people couldn't see a difference there so I just wanted to be very clear about that difference. By answering to most of the question on this board I can tell how often the same question is being asked and I always encourage everyone to search for existing posts which cover the same topic so we don't repeat the same thing over and over again as it may be misleading to users. The exception from that rule is when there is significant version change which in this case wasn't as you referred to 2020 release in 2022.

Summary:

In my opinion release notes are correct and features described in them are delivered. Hope that clarifies it for you. 

cheers

Lech