Email pages of report to multiple recipients

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incredibill
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Email pages of report to multiple recipients

Post by incredibill »

Given a report of 221 pages, for 200 separate customers, with page break on customer...

Ultimately, I need to email selected pages out of the report to the respective customers.

Is there a way to parse the PDF's looking for a value (customer number) in a specific location, and email those pages to that customer's email address, or print only those pages to a unique file for each customer so that the files can be emailed in a separate process?

The only other alternative I see is to call the report 200 times and change the job name each time.

Hopefully, I expressed this well enough to convey my objective.

I would appreciate any suggestions you might have.

Thanks,
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Re: Email pages of report to multiple recipients

Post by Paul - Tracker Supp »

Hi incredibill,

in a PDF it is a difficult and complex thing to find what text is in a certain position. Also splitting a 200 page PDF to 200 single page documents will be very time and memory consuming.

When asked about this, my development team leader said:
I would say that the alternative method (to call the report 200 times and change the job name each time) is much-much better with any SDK
I hope that helps.
Best regards

Paul O'Rorke
Tracker Support North America
http://www.tracker-software.com