Scheduling Blank reports

Hi i am a newbie so forgive me if this sounds like rubbish. We have recently changed our Scheduling system from c-view manager (third party cheap schedular always going wrong) to buissness objects and the infoview way of the world. In c-view we used to be able to schedule a report and if the report was blank it wouldn't send the email and attachement, But in buissness objects, we can't seem to do this? Can anyone help? Is there a plug in or something?
any help would be great!
kind regards
stefan

Hello,
at the moment there is no tool or plug in to avoid blank reports from being processed.
The only possible approach is to postprocess these reports with the SDKs to react on the physical amount of data in reports. Please post if you want to go that way.
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