Email attachment issue

RE: Email attachment issue

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 17:13:38 GMT

As a secondary thing, be careful when you use "now()" to append a value to the filename. "now()" when cast as text will create a date with slash and colon (":") characters in it - that will work (afaik) decently in Appian but will cause issues when anyone tries to download such a file since slashes are strictly disallowed in filenames in most PC filesystems.

My normal trick to handle this is to set the filename with a safe string like "ExcelExport - " & text(now(), "yyyy-mm-dd hh.mm.ss")"

RE: Email attachment issue

swapnar6405 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:40:40 GMT

Thank you Sanchit. I got it.

Great help.

RE: Email attachment issue

sanchitg0002 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:37:02 GMT

As I told you pv!reportname do not contain your generated document it just have a text for document name, use the pv!NewDocument in attachments for send E-mail service.

RE: Email attachment issue

swapnar6405 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:33:56 GMT

Hi did setup in the Outputs tab too. But no luck. Could you check below attached screen shots please.

RE: Email attachment issue

sanchitg0002 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:21:09 GMT

Hi,

You are not saving the generated document correctly here, your pv!reportName will just have the name of document which you are passing in value.

The generated new document can be saved into a pv from Output tab from Results