Hi everyone,
I'm working in a customer with NAV2017.
Is it possible to send by mail, a report (sales shipment for example) without attaching it? For example, sending an hyperplink in the mail body, and the receiver of the mail will click into that link, and download the PDF.
Thank you all
I expect it is. The receiver will need access to the link to do the download. Have you considered where they are downloading from? The alternative to this could be that you make the email body the document. Your version allows emails to have word layouts which can be a mirror image of the document. Would save on attachments and downloads that way. Just makes the email file itself bigger.
I agree with you to make as email body and use word layout.
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Thank you both for your answers. But using the word layour for the mail body I think is not the solution I need...
The scenario is this one. A shipping agent comes to the warehouse, and takes a package. In that package, there can be 3 sales shipments. Instead of attaching the 3 PDFs of the shipments, the idea is to send a link to download each one of them.
And if this will be possible generating the PDFs on demand, without saving them in any servers, will be ideal...
It sounds brilliant as a solution and I’d love to see it. You’ve dangled the carrot so perhaps you get input. For me this requirement is bigger than a forum post. For that version I think it’s more of a .NET development than a C/AL. Fingers crossed someone has a solution or a product suggestion.
Fingers crossed to... I thought thay may be it will exist a solution without accesing to the matrix. Well, of course if I found any solution I will keep you updated, and any tip will be welcome!
Hi Aitor,
I saw you question and the replies and understand what it is you like to do. But have you considered everything? By attaching the PDF you transfer the data to a specific email owned by the customer. Hereby you also transfer the responsibility for the data security, meaning that it's their responsibility that the PDF data doesn't end up with the wrong people.
If you store the PDF and allows the customer to download from an URL, then you keep this responsibility.
So fid you think about data security? Would you protect the PDF with username/password, or is the URL enough?
And did you imagine that it be created at the same time as the mail, or only when the customer activates the link?
I don't have the full solution, I just know that what you ask for is technically MUCH HARDER both to create and maintain, than JUST attaching the files.
But if that was not a problem, then I would look into a solution using rest API's (Odata). This way you would both be able to handle data security (web access key per customer) and create the PDF on the fly.