Information Broadcast / Sending reports automated

Hello,
I have the following task:
we should send reports to non-bw users.
For each recipient should be set a personlized variable (like customer no). So he only get the report with his company code.
There should be possibility to implement this automated?
In Information Broadcast I have to type in every mail adress and assign the right report.
We would need a solution where the variable (eg. company code) is filled automatically, saving the report under a title starting with the company code and then send the report via mail to the correct partner.
As the mail adresses are all in R/3 in the customer datas. It should not be a problem to load them to BW.
Thank you for your help.
Franz

Hi!
I think it is hard to implement a scenario of sending automatically to BP's when they dont have a userid in BW.
Problem is that we can makes settings in broadcaseter either manually or by creating a Variant of report automatically for each userid. I think atleast in BW3.5 it is not possible to automate this.
When we contacted sap regarding the simmilar problem,we were informed that it'S not possible. they suggested us to have atleast background user for each BP. this was about an year ago..so i dont know if there is a solution now.
with regards
ashwin

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