Micros 3700 - capturing (email, post?) the Menu Item Sales PDF daily

[walter1917]

Hello,

I am looking to receive an email or post (via cURL) to my server a copy of Micros 3700 Menu Item Sales PDF.

I understand that I can create an Autosequence to generate the PDF and set it in a path, but what is the easiest and most reliable way to have it sent automatically every day, once generated?

In Aloha - I've used the WINHOOK to do a cURL at EOD. What is the similar function in Micros? I can also see that there is no standard email client so can either use sendmail or cURL post.

Thanks!
Walter

 

[Wildbar]

Micros Report Mailer is what we use. Just have an autosequence set to run to print your PDF reports to a folder. Then setup the emailer to send them out a short time later through another autosequence. Micros Report Mailer has 3 send configs so we use end of day, end of week and end of month in our setup.

 

[hosehead78]

You can also setup BLAT (

http://www.blat.net)

to send them as well.

 

[walter1917]

I didn't see Micros Report Mailer in 3700. I think that's in Simphony...

How do you schedule or call blat or a cURL?

 

[Wildbar]

Micros Report Mailer is (was??) a standalone add-on for 3700. Price used to be $100 I think.
Kind of surprised at this point they haven't incorporated a report emailer into the core product.

 

[hosehead78]

You would run a batch file from a scheduled task, that would grab the pdf you wanted to send and email it.


Sample Batch file. The batch file is called from an existing vbs script that checks the size of a drive on a server. If the drive is less than X GB or MB, an email is sent. This script could also be created and setup to be called from a scheduled task on a server.

echo off
REM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
REM - HOW TO SEND MAIL using blat.exe                                         -
REM - >>>> Blat is a public domain SMTP mail client                           -
REM - >>>> Available at: [URL unfurl="true"]http://blat.net[/URL]                                      -
REM -                                                                         -
REM - This batch file runs passing the four parameters below                  -
REM -      %sendto% is the recipient's address                                -
REM -      %subject% is the subject line                                      -
REM -      %message% is the message file name                                 -
REM -      %file% is the attached file name                                   -
REM -      %bcclist% - bcc list of names                                      -
REM -                                                                         -
REM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
REM - blat file(s) needs to be copied to %windir%\System32 to work properly   -
REM - If they are not copied there then you will need to give the full path   -
REM - where blat is located.                                                  -
REM -                                                                         -
REM - blat needs to be installed on the server before using                   -
REM - Example install:                                                        -
REM - 	blat -install <servername>                                            -
REM - 		<servername> = exchange server or ip address                      -
REM -	OR                                                                    -
REM -	blat -install <servername> <sender's address>                         -
REM -      <sender's address> = senders's email                               -
REM -                                                                         -
REM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

REM Set parameters
Set "subject="*** LOG - DRIVE SIZE LOW""
Set message="Check the drive size on your computer."

REM if a file log is used you can attach it to place its contents inside the message body
Set file="C:\driveSize.log"                     REM FILE TO SEND
Set sendto="C:\scripts\sendto.txt"              REM Text file with list of Emails to send to.
REM Set bcclist="C:\scripts\bccList.txt"        REM Used if sending to Blind Carbon Copy (BCC)   

REM Start mail function; Echo information to CMD Window
echo Sending to: %sendto%
echo Subject: %subject%
echo.

REM SEND FUNCTION
blat %file% -tf %tolist% -s %subject%
::blat %file% -tf %sendto% -bf %bcclist% -s %subject%       REM Used if sending to Blind Carbon Copy (BCC)