Part II.  DocumentBurster™

The sections in Part II present how to configure DocumentBurster™ in order to burst and merge reports, distribute reports through personalized messages, automate report processing through report polling and through the command line interface or how to check the status of the processed reports through auditing and tracing.


Chapter 1, Burst and Merge PDF Reports
Chapter 2, Burst Excel Reports
Chapter 3, Distribute Reports
Chapter 4, Configuration Templates
Chapter 5, Variables
Chapter 6, Automatic Polling for Incoming Reports
Chapter 7, Quality Assurance
Chapter 8, Command Line

Table of Contents

1. Burst and Merge PDF Reports
1.1. Burst PDF Reports
1.1.1. Steps to Follow When Bursting a Report
1.1.2. Burst a Sample Report - Invoices-Oct.pdf
1.2. Merge PDF Reports
1.3. Configuration
1.3.1. Advanced Settings
2. Burst Excel Reports
2.1. Overview
2.2. Burst by Distinct Sheets
2.3. Burst by Distinct Column Values
2.3.1. How It Works
2.3.2. Steps to Follow When Bursting an Excel Report by Distinct Column Values
2.3.3. Sample - Customers-Distinct-Column-Values.xls
3. Distribute Reports
3.1. Overview
3.2. Enable Report Distribution
3.3. Distribute Reports by Email
3.3.1. Email Connection Settings
3.3.2. Dynamic Email Connection Settings
3.3.3. Email Each Report to One Recipient
3.3.4. Email Each Report to Multiple Recipients
3.3.5. Text Email Messages
3.3.6. HTML Email Messages
3.3.7. Beautiful Responsive HTML Emails
3.4. Attachments
3.4.1. Configure Attachments
3.5. Upload Reports
3.5.1. cURL Integration
3.5.2. FTP
3.5.3. File Share
3.5.4. FTPS
3.5.5. SFTP/SSH/SCP
3.5.6. HTTP/WebDAV
3.6. Send SMS Messages
3.6.1. Twilio
3.6.2. Text
4. Configuration Templates
4.1. Process PDF Reports Using a Custom Configuration File
4.2. Process Excel Reports Using a Custom Configuration File
4.3. Add, Edit and Delete Configuration Templates
4.3.1. Create Similar Configuration Templates
5. Variables
5.1. Example - Configure an Unique Output Folder
5.2. Built-In Variables
5.2.1. Sample - Payslips.pdf
5.3. User-Defined Variables
5.3.1. Sample Invoices-Oct.pdf - Customizable Burst File Name
5.3.2. Excel User-Defined Variables
6. Automatic Polling for Incoming Reports
6.1. Watch a Folder for Incoming Reports
7. Quality Assurance
7.1. Email Tester
7.1.1. Configuration
7.1.2. Run Test
7.2. Logging
7.3. Send Processing Errors by Email
7.4. Quarantine Reports Which Fail To Be Delivered
7.5. Error Handling
8. Command Line
8.1. Usage
8.2. Burst Reports
8.3. Merge Reports
8.4. Poll Folder for Incoming Reports
8.5. Quality Assurance