Understanding Emailing BI Publisher Reports to External Users
There may be situations where you want to distribute reports using email to recipients that do not have PeopleSoft user profiles. PeopleTools enables you to distribute bursted and non-bursted BI Publisher reports to external users whose email addresses are stored in the database, file server, or other location.
A report developer creates an application class to retrieve the stored distribution lists, and then specifies the application class in the report definition.
Email Report Delivery
When you run and email a report to external users, the report is delivered as an email attachment in the output format defined in the report definition.
The email message that delivers the report contains the following default subject line text and default body text:.
| Report Type | Default Email Subject Text | Default Body Text |
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Non-bursted |
BI Publisher <REPORT_NAME> Report For example:
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BI Publisher Report <REPORT_NAME> Report Process ID: <PROCESS_ID_NUMBER> For example:
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Bursted |
BI Publisher <REPORT_NAME> Report <BURST_VALUE> For example:
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BI Publisher Report <REPORT_NAME> <BURST_VALUE> Process ID: <PROCESS_ID_NUMBER> For example:
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