Email configuration with Workflow/TM1 Contributor

[Radhika]

Hi All,
Good Day.

Using TM1 Contributor/Workflow can we configure user emails where in during the planning process if any users update their budgeted values their one level up users should get an email notification regarding the change.
Please guide me how can I configure the user email ids against TM1 components.

Thanks,
Radhika

[David Usherwood]

Someone can contradict me here, but I don't think TM1 Contributor supports emails - yet. It's one of the features of Cognos Contributor that didn't make it across.

[Christopher Kernahan]

I haven't seen this done natively in TM1, but you can design a TI process to output a textfile to a folder location, and set up a Lotus Notes agent to run on that folder, converting the text file output (email, cc, bcc, subject, message) into an email.

[qml]

Or, if you have an SMTP server in your company, use a command-line tool to send e-mails (same method as Christopher suggested - ExecuteCommand from a TI). There are a few free ones to download from the Internet.

[tomok]

Or, if you have an SMTP server in your company, use a command-line tool to send e-mails (same method as Christopher suggested - ExecuteCommand from a TI). There are a few free ones to download from the Internet.

The problem here, of course, is that this is still a "pull" mechanism, not a push. You still have to wrestle with how to create a TI process that can be established to run on a fixed interval (pretty easy) and be able to quickly determine when a specific budget value has been updated (not so easy to do) and then detemine the appropriate person to direct the email. The problems aren't insurmountable but certainly are not easy by any stretch.