Question:
I'm having a challenge with bundling emails. I want to group like emails together. One batch bundles fine, and the other batch does not work. How can I fix this?
Answer:
The trick to the "bundling" of attachments is making sure the email addresses/distribution lists are *EXACTLY* the same. The logic in our app is pretty simple... unless you manually sort a batch using the Sort Number field, we auto-sort by Destination Type and Destination when the batch is run. This causes the bundling effect (if the next destination matches the previous destination). We do not sort the email list first though, so you must enter them the EXACT same way or use "OK and Clone" when creating the batch. Just to be crystal-clear, here are some will/won't examples...
Will bundle:
Job 1: bjones@company.com; ssmith@company.com; jmills@company.com
Job 2: bjones@company.com; ssmith@company.com; jmills@company.com
Job 3: bjones@company.com; ssmith@company.com; jmills@company.com
Won't bundle:
Job 1: bjones@company.com; ssmith@company.com; jmills@company.com
Job 2: ssmith@company.com; jmills@company.com; bjones@company.com
Job 3: jmills@company.com; bjones@company.com; ssmith@company.com
Make sense?
NOTE: If you create a text file with one email on each line, you can [Attach] an email list to a job, too. And of course, if you attach the same email list to all jobs, the email list will match exactly, and you'll get the bundling effect that way, too. You can create an unlimited amount of email lists.
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NOTE: Make sure you do NOT have the batch-specific INI setting of SUBJECT=[Report Description] set, too. That forces individual emails, because you're telling Report Runner Batch to set the subject of each email to what's in the job edit window (and you can't set a single subject from multiple jobs).
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