Re: Generating multiple PDFs from same screen for a single Email

Method_Paul — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:35:34 GMT

The send email action supports more than one PDF attachment. So you're in good shape.

Paul

Generating multiple PDFs from same screen for a single Email

smohyee — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:54:34 GMT

Hi team,

I haven't gotten into the nitty-gritty of the action lists yet, I'd just like to make sure what I want to do is possible in Method before I get designing. I found a post from Paul (here) where he says:

"Attaching an PDF to an email is easy. You would just use a Generate Report action, immediately followed by a Send Email action to send the PDF. You can reverse engineer how Work Orders are emailed in Method Field Services to see how that happens."

The wording of this quote makes me nervous, because it implies that the email is created around that single PDF. What if I want to generate multiple PDF reports, and having them sent together in the same email.

Where does this come up, you ask? Well, as a drop-shipper, my company sends a packing slip with each purchase order to our vendors. When the vendor ships the order to our customer, they'll stick our packing slip in the box instead of their own, so it looks like it shipped from us. So I'd like a way to conveniently email them both the PO and the PS as separate PDFs, but attached to the same email. By the way, all the information used in the Purchase Order report and Packing Slip report is on the Purchase Order Screen, though from my understanding that isn't important.

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