Attach order acknowledgement to email in BPM

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

@kve

Were you able to get a working BPM that sends the Order Acknowledgement form? I am trying to automate that process, and I’m having an issue getting the report as a pdf attachment.

@dr_dan

I thought I had it working OK (I got it to work seemingly reliably) but at some point I realized it was not working every time. So I ended up disabling it and haven’t gotten back to it to figure out why it wouldn’t work reliably.

I don’t know if either of you are still looking for this, but since I was referencing @dr_dan 's post to refresh my memory I thought I would pop this in.

Your answer lies in using RunDirect, instead of SubmitToAgent. If you want it to run asynchronously, run it via a scheduled function, which you can schedule on the fly to run “Now”.

Here is the run direct example, which just so happens to be the same report

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