Exporting a PDF report from Enfocus Switch

darleneroy · Post by **darleneroy** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 5:24 pm

Hi, I am a novice to Enfocus Switch 12.

So there may be a simple solution to my question.

In setting up my pitstop server preflight I see that i can generate a report type as a pdf. How do I get this generated pdf to then be emailed to a certain address.

Can this be done?? Any advice would be greatly appreciated

gabrielp · Post by **gabrielp** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:31 pm

darleneroy wrote: How do I get this generated pdf to then be emailed to a certain address.
Yup. Just connect a Mail Send after the Pitstop action and ensure "Attach files" is set to "yes".

gabrielp · Post by **gabrielp** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:33 pm

You may find that having all of these preflight reports bouncing around as email attachments can be tough, especially if they are large in size. So most people move the reports into a Switch Checkpoint and then email the user (without attachment) to let them know its ready for viewing in the Switch Client.

darleneroy · Post by **darleneroy** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 4:49 pm

Thankyou very much for your response. This worked great. I have the pitstop reports going into a folder on our drive for viewing.

rgpepper · Post by **rgpepper** » Wed Oct 19, 2016 11:06 pm

I'm also trying to include the preflight report with the checkpoint via email, but unless I'm not understanding all the nuances of how checkpoints via email work, I don't see how you can:

A) checkpoint's purpose is to get customer approval to move the *production* PDF to the next step in the flow
B) if you include the preflight report as an attachment by using assemble job, the checkpoint will move BOTH the *production* PDF and the *report* PDF to the next step because the checkpoint only gives a yes/no to attach files - no discretion
C) If you use the preflight report PDF as the trigger and set attach files to "yes" you would only be able to *route* the *report* PDF to the next step in the flow intended for the *production* PDF.

In short it doesn't seem possible, but it's still what I need to do

What's NOT acceptable:
To email BOTH the *report* PDF and the *production* PDF in the checkpoint email
To route both the *report* PDF and the *production* PDF to the *production* PDF's next flow step in this flow

Terkelsen · Post by **Terkelsen** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 2:00 pm

How about using your solution "C" and use the report to inject the production file?

In other words, send the report to the checkpoint. If it's approved, route the report to the next step in the flow. Use "Inject job" to have the report trigger the injection of the production file and send that to the next step in the flow.

rgpepper · Post by **rgpepper** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:52 pm

There we go, I'll give that a try!

LasseThid · Post by **LasseThid** » Thu Mar 02, 2017 12:39 pm

gabrielp wrote:darleneroy wrote: How do I get this generated pdf to then be emailed to a certain address.
Yup. Just connect a Mail Send after the Pitstop action and ensure "Attach files" is set to "yes".

I'm trying to create a similar flow, but when I set Attach files to Yes I only get the customers PDF in the mail, not the actual report.
My PitStop Preflight Profile only checks the resolution for the images and is set to create a report for only Image Information.

jan_suhr · Post by **jan_suhr** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:35 pm

Lasse,

Did you connect the Send email to the PitStops outgoing connection for logs?

Jan

LasseThid · Post by **LasseThid** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 1:54 pm

Yes, I got it working.

Thanks

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