We've been busy delivering some very cool new features to Clear Enterprise users. :-)
We have some demanding requirements thrown at us these days.. How about this one; "We need the system to attach 3 different dynamically created PDF documents to an automatic email that is generated at time of invoicing.." The three documents are as follows - Firstly, a copy of the invoice as a PDF. Secondly a specially written Crystal report that provides the customer with details of the products on the order - sort of like a brochure. Finally, another particularly tricky Crystal report which provides the customer with labels to attach to the products on the order - when they arrive.
If you speak to Clear Objective, the original vendors of Clear Enterprise, and ask "How can I automatically email three different reports converted to PDF on the same HTML email..? The answer is - "You can't" That's mainly because the standard Clear Enterprise Report Server is fairly limited in what it can do.. For example, the fact that it can't actually print the report to paper has always been a big problem for us.
Anyway, problem solved with some cool new email features and our fully featured Report Server. Our report server can not only actually PRINT the reports to any number of system printers, but it can also Print to Email, and Print to Document Storage. i.e. Print report to PDF and then store it in Clears Document management system. Using our own "IPC" Inter Process Communication extension for Clear, we were able to manage the multi report printing and subsequent attachment to a single email.
If you'd like to make your Clear Enterprise system sing - just contact us as we'd love to help.
