We have >100 recipients that we need to email reports to, ideally in PDF format.
We are considering the following options:
- use the metabase emailing / subscription which does not seem to have a supported API yet: Send Subscription/Pulse/Alert via the API · Issue #5772 · metabase/metabase · GitHub this would likely only have images, not PDFs
- run a container with a headless browser to access "Export as PDF" inside metabase . Alternative we might download the image and then convert to pdf with imagemagick or similar tools.
Does anybody have recommendations / experiences for either solution 1 or 2?
For number one I've discovered that the emails of the dashboard seems to have certain short comings:
- the vertical length of cards is shorter than in the dashboard. For example we have a very long table (so that all results fit without pagination). This works in the browser, but in the email somehow the height is shorter and it falls back to pagination
- The mini-bar charts inside table cells don't seem to be rendered.
This probably means we won't pursue route number 1
Hi,
I see there is a way to export the dashboard on a PDF file. But if I need to send a report daily to my customers, there is a feature, to send the report in a PDF format via email? I know there is csv and xlsx types.
Thanks!