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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 4, 2017

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Ability to determine which boxes are checked by default when emailing a report

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When our users use the "Run in Background" feature in Cognos Analytics to email a report that's in a public folder, they typically email the report as an attachment.

Currently when the Delivery method of “Send report by email” is chosen, the "Include a link to the report" and “Save report” boxes are checked by default and the “Attach the report” box is un-checked by default.

Our users use this feature a lot. So this means our users have to remember each time to un-check the "Include a link to the report" and “Save report” boxes (because they can't save anything in our public folders) and also check the “Attach the report” box (so they get the email attachment).

When users choose the Delivery method of “Send report by email” we would like to see the "Include a link to the report" and “Save report” boxes un-checked by default as well as the “Attach the report” box checked by default to save our users time with this process (and save them from re-doing this process because they didn't check/un-check boxes properly).

If these defaults are not possible then we would like for administrators to have a setting somewhere (e.g. in the Administration Console) that they can update to decide which boxes are checked/un-checked by default.
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    |     Mar 24, 2025

    It was perfectly working on my 11.2.1 version upgraded to 12.0.4 and support says this functionality changed by IBM without having a sense of doing things. We got a reply like below, this shows how silly IBM handles a product.

    "update default option in "advanced options" when report is selected to be mailed to "Include a link to the report" instead of "Attach the report";
    This is meant to avoid that endusers accidentally forget to untick the default "Attach the report";
    RISK: if current default for C10.2.1 FP4 as "Attach the report" is not unticked hugh attachments might be sent instead of the very lightweight link to the actual report;    "

    Some one reported a strange requirement and IBM ditched all the customers who is heavily depended on the feature of sending email by attaching the report. At least providing an override parameter setup is the one developers missed.

    May be IBM is not concerned about increasing the customer base. Simply bug the customers to switch to another product. Now we are seriously thinking about another options.

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