gcematthews
2004-09-20 01:07:36 UTC
Hi,
I just came across Blat after I saw it used in a Firefox extension.
Blat, in combination with the Teleflip service can send text messages
from the browser==> http://extensions.roachfiend.com/index.php
In any event, it sounds pretty cool (Blat -- not necessarily the
Firefox extension) and I'm now thinking of trying out Blat at work. I
handle our e-business, but I'm on the business side not I.T. This
makes me somewhat dangerous :)
Unlike many on the business side, before posting, I read through lots
of messages on this board and have spent some time on the Blat
website. I just want to double check the following is feasible:
--Sales Reports are created Monday morning and saved to a directory.
--Create a batch file with the appropriate Blat lingo in order to
email the report(s) to the intended report recipients.
--Create a scheduled task to run the batch file on Monday mid-morning.
A couple of twists I was thinking about:
Twist 1
Is there a way to decide who the email recipient should be based on
the report's name? For example, we could include the recipient's
email name (not including the companyxyz.com part) as the beginning of
the report name. Somehow get Blat to go to a specified directory and
look for all attachments named *report.xls, where * is the appropriate
user's 8 character email name.
I'm essentially looking to avoid hardcoding who gets what report.
That way there would be a single solution for the following scenario:
week 1
Sales Person A gets 3 reports
Sales Person B gets 1 report
week 2
Sales Person A gets 2 reports
Sales Person B gets 0 reports (and has a job in jeopardy!)
Or, could we have Blat send all documents within a directory as
attachments to a user? If there were no documents in the directory,
Blat wouldn't send.
Twist 2
I'd like to create a couple of top line reports (e.g. a few lines of
key info) and have them emailed as the message body. No problem for
Blat there, I would just have the reports created in text format.
However, is it possible to have a second text file included in the
message body. The second text file would act as an intro or other
greeting e.g. "Below is your key info delivered to your fingertips, so
you no longer have to think".
I suspect there are a number of ways to accomplish the above 'twists',
perhaps not all within Blat.
Any suggestions, tips or inspiration are appreciated.
Regards,
--GCE
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I just came across Blat after I saw it used in a Firefox extension.
Blat, in combination with the Teleflip service can send text messages
from the browser==> http://extensions.roachfiend.com/index.php
In any event, it sounds pretty cool (Blat -- not necessarily the
Firefox extension) and I'm now thinking of trying out Blat at work. I
handle our e-business, but I'm on the business side not I.T. This
makes me somewhat dangerous :)
Unlike many on the business side, before posting, I read through lots
of messages on this board and have spent some time on the Blat
website. I just want to double check the following is feasible:
--Sales Reports are created Monday morning and saved to a directory.
--Create a batch file with the appropriate Blat lingo in order to
email the report(s) to the intended report recipients.
--Create a scheduled task to run the batch file on Monday mid-morning.
A couple of twists I was thinking about:
Twist 1
Is there a way to decide who the email recipient should be based on
the report's name? For example, we could include the recipient's
email name (not including the companyxyz.com part) as the beginning of
the report name. Somehow get Blat to go to a specified directory and
look for all attachments named *report.xls, where * is the appropriate
user's 8 character email name.
I'm essentially looking to avoid hardcoding who gets what report.
That way there would be a single solution for the following scenario:
week 1
Sales Person A gets 3 reports
Sales Person B gets 1 report
week 2
Sales Person A gets 2 reports
Sales Person B gets 0 reports (and has a job in jeopardy!)
Or, could we have Blat send all documents within a directory as
attachments to a user? If there were no documents in the directory,
Blat wouldn't send.
Twist 2
I'd like to create a couple of top line reports (e.g. a few lines of
key info) and have them emailed as the message body. No problem for
Blat there, I would just have the reports created in text format.
However, is it possible to have a second text file included in the
message body. The second text file would act as an intro or other
greeting e.g. "Below is your key info delivered to your fingertips, so
you no longer have to think".
I suspect there are a number of ways to accomplish the above 'twists',
perhaps not all within Blat.
Any suggestions, tips or inspiration are appreciated.
Regards,
--GCE
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