Email Attachment Automation - Send Once instead of Hundreds?

[mykrobinson]

Sorry for the flurry of questions today. I am working on an automation to send a report at the end of a week containing a listing of residents seen by providers that week. I have a “seen by provider” table that captures which provider saw which resident, at which facility, and when.

I first created a scheduled event, configured as seen below:

and I configured the “send email” part. It’s working, however, instead of me receiving a single email with the report, as of this typing, i have received over 100 of the same report

What am i missing here? I imagine it’s because of the “ForEachRowInTable” part in the schedule. If this is correct, my concern is that turning off that field removes that “what table to query” part.

[SkrOYC]

Yes, “foreachrowintable” is executing the same thing hundreds of times.

You can change your expression to gather data from the table you want without needing that setting

[mykrobinson]

and of course now I am having filtering problems

Seems the condition wants a yes/no, and i am having trouble figuring out how to feed my list based on

Seen by Provider[Seen Timestamp]>=(TODAY()-7)

I may get this figured out on my own. I welcome the help, but I am also documenting my thoughts as I go. These things are always helpful to go back and read later

[SkrOYC]

Provider[Seen Timestamp]>=(TODAY()-7)

This doesn’t seem right since Provider[Seen Timestamp] is a list of (I guess) datetime data and (TODAY()-7) is a date

[mykrobinson]

Even if I use (NOW()-7), the error i get is

Cannot compare list with DateTime in (Seen by Provider[Seen Timestamp]>=(Now()-7))

[SkrOYC]

Yes, exatly.

Can you share your template as well as the result of it?

Maybe you may want to send a report using a template Start:

Template Start Expressions | AppSheet Help Center

[mykrobinson]

Heck, this alone was a significant tip, i didn’t realize that I could filter in the template! I allowed it to create the template for me and am just now looking at it. I think perhaps I just need to work with a proper filter statement for the start expression.

Thank you!

[mykrobinson]

Thank you again, I completed the filter in the start expression on the template this morning, and it performed as expected. Now to take baby steps in customizing the template further.