NPrinting, one task, one receiver, multiple / separate emails

[jharke]

Dear community,

There is a QV file over 14 databases. I use cycle in NPrinting (v16) to make a report per database to send these reports to a manager. He now gets one e-mail with 14 PDF attachments. He asked me to get 14 separate e-mails instead, in order to... whatever.

I don't know how to do that. Any suggestion?

[Ruggero_Piccoli · Accepted solution]

In Qlik NPrinting 16 all reports generated in a single task for a specific user are grouped in a single email to improve performances. Sending a single email requires only one connection to your SMTP server instead of open and close a connection for each email.

There is not an option to force to create a single email for each report. The only solution to send a different email for each report is to create a different task for each report. You can clone the original task and leave a single report for each task.

Evaluate also the idea to deliver reports to a shared folder instead of send them via email if the recipient is internal.

[jharke]

I was afraid of this..

Well, I guess I have to deal with it (or, my manager has to deal with it )

[Arek92]

Hello @Ruggero_Piccoli ,

Do you know if this functionality is working in Nprinting May 2023 version?

After experimenting I assume not, but maybe I miss sth

Thanks in advance!

[Lech_Miszkiewicz]

Yes - you miss something @Arek92 

You could have dummy users set as a separate recipient with its user filter applied to only produce report for individual value of your choice. Then you could use alternate email to deliver it to single recipient. That saves you from creating multiple tasks. 

I explained that here: https://nprintingadventures.com/2020/06/17/small-big-change-dynamic-email-address/

cheers

[Arek92]

@Lech_Miszkiewicz  Thank you for the quick response

Will your approach be still applicable with using cycle?

I am kind of forced to cycle through the table to prepare report for each of account number. I can't do filtering through each account number as each day there can be multpile, new  account numbers..

Again, many thanks for helping me to figure it out 🙂

[Lech_Miszkiewicz]

@Arek92 

No, cycles obviously will not work unless you are willing to have zipped reports in single file. 
The alternative solution i provided before can be automated by creating multi-step process:

• export required accounts
• create/update/delete dummy users for them, their filters and group
• run your report

as i said-this can be automated, but requires planning and would work best when used with API trigger so you can ensure task chaining as above steps require minimum 3 tasks