This definitely sounds like something that should be done on the server side and not done using a client side application. How are you sending the emails now from the flex app? Calling a php app that creates the mail and sends it via SMTP? If so, then why not just put the automated job logic in that layer? If you absolutely have to do it in flex, I suppose you could doing something like have a windows task (not sure what OS you are using) exceute every night which kicks off the swf or the flex app and flash player embedded into an exe. Or you could just leave the flash player running with your flex app and use a timer in AS. Neither are very great solutions though, given that the flash player is a client side player :-) Karl Cynergy
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of tyriker Sent: Mon 2/19/2007 11:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Automated Email Reports with Flex We've built a Flex app to read XML data from an HTTPService, and display the data as a report (a table or some sort of chart) to the user. From within the app, the user can email the report to someone, (we use the method of converting the Flex components to an image, and then building an HTML file with the images embedded, and sending the user an HTML email). The problem we've come up against is how to automate and email such reports (like on a nightly basis). With automation, there won't be a 'client-side' or browser to load the Flex app into to generate the tables/graphs. Is there a solution for this, or essentially, a way to run a Flash/Flex app without involving a user/browser? Any command-line Flex interpreters, or anything in PHP or another server-side language that can 'trigger' a Flex app? Thanks.
