Emailing the results of scheduled workbooks

Hi everyone
One of the most common asked for features is the ability to email the results of scheduled workbooks. While this may well become a feature of a future release, I have been able to work out a way to do this using a product called Febooti
In the coming weeks I will be publishing a white paper on this as well as scripts but for now feel free to take a look at my blog:
http://learndiscoverer.blogspot.com/2006/08/third-party-scheduling-and-emailing-1.html
or website: http://learndiscoverer.com/scheduling.htm
Best wishes
Michael Armstrong-Smith

Will appreciate reading the white paper. As I mentioned in another thread, Febooti works great for this and ... well when I last used it ... it was a 'freebie ... well shareware'.
Russ

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