Actions - Distributing reports Introduction

Actions are entities widely used in Mail & Deploy; there is a variety of actions which all perform different operations such as filtering a field in a datasource, creating a report document, distributing a report document by e-mail, saving a report document to the file system etc.

These actions are managed in lists; when Mail & Deploy executes the action list, all actions will be executed sequentially (from top to bottom); this way you can control the order in which actions are executed.

The following buttons can be used to manage actions in an action list:

	Click this button to create a new action; a context menu will open that allows you to select which type of action you want to create. The actions to create are organized in categories.
	Click this button to edit the currently selected action.
	Click this button to create a copy of the currently selected action.
	Click this button to delete the currently selected action.
	Click this button to move the currently selected action to the top of the list.
	Click this button to move the currently selected action one step up.
	Click this button to move the currently selected action one step down.
	Click this button to move the currently selected action to the bottom of the list.

If you want to add an action to an action container (like Group Action, Cycle Action), you can click the top item of the action container with the right mouse and select the type of action you want to add.
You can expand and collapse an action container by clicking on its image.

Here you can see all available actions for distributing reports:

Report Document Creation Create Report Document Report Document Manipulation Append to Report Document Report Document Assignment Dynamically Assign Users to Report Document Dynamically E-Mail Addresses Users to Report Document File Collection Management Add File to File Collection Remove all Files from File Collection Distribution Distribute by E-Mail Save Report to File System Save Report Document as Images to File System Distribute Report Document to Hub Report Document Library Upload Report Document to FTP Local Variable Management Set Local Variable Value Macros & Applications Run Macro Run Application Printing Print Report Document User & User Group Management Synchronize Users and User Groups with File Synchronize Users and User Groups with Active Directory Import User Custom Properties from File File I/O Write Text File Flow Control  Group Cycle