Pecalculation with Information Broadcasting

hi,
I am try to set up this scenario but somewhere i am missing some setting. I need your suggestions.
I have one query on multiprovider which includes 8 cubes. The query takes half an hour to display the results. So, what i have done is i have done the precalculation of the query for specific selection and executed it. And after that i want to send an email to the users through Information Broadcasting with the link so that when they click on the link they could get the results within a minute along with navigations or drill downs.
I know that this broadcasting can be executed via process chains using trigger event data chain. But i am looking for some help on this.
I would like to set up my report like this:
1) After data is loaded into Cubes, the process chain should kick the job.
2) After process chain kicks the job, the precalculation of the web template should run.
3) After the precalculation is completed an email should be sent to the users via broadcasting with a link of latest data.
Over all, after the data loading finishes, the precalculation should start and after precalculation finishes, email process should kick. ...
How can i acheive this? If there is any wrong sequence above also, please correct me and advise how should i set this up. I could manually do this each step but i want to automate this after every data load. Please advise.
Thanks in advance...

Hi,
You can achieve thru information broadcasting.
Steps :
1. Create a process chain.
         Start - Trigger Event data change .
         In the trigger Event data change ,you can specify the infoprovider name which you want to precalculate the query for the infoprovider.
2. In the information broadcaster , you will find the option as
              ' Execution with Data change in the infoprovider'.
                     Mark the check box for the infoprovider.
             Once the infocube data gets loaded or changed , the process chain will kick off the trigger Event data change..Then it will precalculate the query and send a mail to the users.
           Only thing is you have to start the process chain , once you know the timing when infocube get load finsihed , then you can specify the timing in the start variant of the process chain..
I hope you get my answer.
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