Report Bursting to email

Report Bursting to email

Posted by: damien.murray on 15 August 2023, 8:30 pm EST

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  damien.murray

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  Posted 15 August 2023, 8:30 pm EST

  Hi,

  Is there a way to burst active reports saved as pdf to an inbox on a schedule?

  Thanks for your help

  Damien

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  akshay.rajput

  

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  Posted 16 August 2023, 7:08 pm EST

  Hi Damien,

  To send an email from a JavaScript application with an attachment using SMTP, you will need a backend server to handle the email sending process. You cannot directly send emails from a frontend application due to security restrictions.

  You can export the PDF to a blob and send it back to a server to send emails.

  For exporting a report to PDF please refer to the following lines of code:

  import { Core,PdfExport } from "@grapecity/activereports";
  
  async function sendEmail(){
    let reportId='report.rdlx-json';
    const report = new Core.PageReport();
    await report.load(reportId);
    var document = await report.run()
    var result=await exportPdf(document);
    var blob=result.data;  
    // Use this blob to send email
  }
  async function exportPdf(document){
    const pdfSettings= {  info: {  title: "report"  } }
    const result = await PdfExport.exportDocument(document, pdfSettings);
    //result.download("report"); // use this to download PDF file
    return result.blob;  
  }
  

  For sending emails I would suggest you to use nodemailer.

  For more information, on exporting report to PDF please refer to the following pages of our documentation:
  
  Printing and exporting the report output

  Regards,

  Akshay