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Apr 29, 2014 at 02:45 PM

4.1 Webi Publication does not have Delivery Rules

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I have created a publication for a Webi report in 4.1 BOE. I noticed that the publication does not have an option for Delivery Rules, which is available for Crystal Reports. I'm not sure if that is by Design, as I don't know why it would be available for one and not the other. Here's a summary of the issue:

My publication uses Dynamic Recipients which number over a hundred. Anytime the publication is run, only a few will actually have a report that contains data and is based on if they have posted data for the week or not. Thus it's always an unknown on who should receive a report before run time. So what winds up happening is I get a publication that emails a 100 or so blank reports and about 4 or 5 reports that actually contain data. Obviously the intent is to only send out the 4 or 5 reports that actually contain data. The Publication itself actually works as intended, but as I mentioned before Crystal has Delivery Rules that allow you to "Deliver only when report contains data" which is what I need in Webi.

Does anyone know of a way to get this to work in Webi without the Delivery Rules option? The workaround of course is to re-create the Webi report as a Crystal report and to create a publication for the Crystal report. But the desire is for this to be a Webi report so I am trying to figure out a solution.