Best Practice for embedding webi reports in hyperlinks..

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What is the best practice for embedding hyperlinks (email) from webi and sending to a user?so the users can quickly consume the report with minimal effort (click link and launch infoview/report).
John

As mentionned already, BI has it's own inbox, and/or SMTP integration for broadcasting.
Else, if you go to Folders, right click on your report instance, then select "Copy URL" (or 'docuemnt link' i cannot remember the exact term.) - that woudl give you an open document link to invoke the viewer .
Regards,
H

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