Broadcasting Web Client

Jörn Constabel

Dear all,

 

does anyone has experince with broadcasting in web client?

We want to send a user an email after her submits data trough BOARD. (Just to give him a clear confirmation that we recieved his data.)

 

We are using BOARD 10.4.

I bulid this in the win client and it works.

But when I try to use it in web client no email will sent. The procedure don't show any error. It's just not sending an email.

 

Any ideas?

 

Regards,

Jörn

Unknown

Hi Jorn,

 

From what I know, the broadcasting is not supported yet in 10.3 (Differences between web client and win client (broadcasting falls under procedures -> reporting tab), but it should be supported in one of the upcoming versions. I am not sure about the exact timeline as the roadmap has been shuffled around quite a bit in the latest months.

 

We have supported this functionality in the web client with an ad-hoc powershell script, launched through a BOARD procedure.

You can contact me in private in case you would need the script.

 

All the best,
Jonathan

Jörn Constabel

Hi Jonathan Baetens,

 

thanks for you feedback to this.

We fixed it ourself.

We created a procuedure which will drop a .txt in a folder on the BOARD-Server. This procedure can be started at web frontend.

Further, we created a task which is checking every minute this folder (.bat-file). If there is a data in this folder, the BOARD will be started from commandline and run a procdure which included the boradcasting job.

 

It works, but it's just a compex workaround. I'm not setisfied with this.

And I'm expecting from BOARD to bring the Broadcasting function into the web client.

 

Futher to this, I'm also not fine the Broadcasting anyway (See my Idea here: Broadcasting: Subject, CC, BC and Body )

 

Regards,

Jörn 

Unknown

Hi Jorn,

I am happy to hear that you found a workaround and completely agreeing that the Boradcasting functionality needs to be brought to the web client. This functionality was initially promised to be available in 07/2018 in 10.3 during the roadmap discussion in BOARDVille 2018, but was eventually not included.

Hopefully it will be available in 10.5 instead

All the best,
Jonathan

Lorenzo Maffini

Hi,Jörn Constabel,

I've the same problem and I'm still finding a solution. I'm interested about your .bat file.

Can you explain me in private how it works and show me the file?

Thank you very much.

 

Lorenzo Maffini

Jörn Constabel

Hi Lorenzo Maffini,

 

we changed the process for sending an email feedback after some weeks. The reason was, that we couldn't see if an email was sent out or not. The BOARD Broadcasting has no option to put an cc or bcc. So we hoped for some time that an email was sent out.

 

Now, we don't longer use the broadcasting. Instead of this, we are using a small cmd mail.exe which get fired by  BOARD through a BOARD procedure which calls a server side command. 

 

In detail:

We generate a .bat-file through an ASCII export which included the command to run the mail.exe inluding the needed paramters like sent to, send from, subject and body. This generated file looks like this:

 

Further, we have a .bat-file in C:\Board\Job\ which will be triggered through the BOARD procedure.

This file looks like this:

 

The first file will be generated after the user hits the button "Submit Planning" and in the second step of the same procedure the second .bat-file fill run the generated file (and delete it at the end). 

 

 

Regards,

Jörn