E-Mail module settings

General tab

For e-mail modules, only the standard information must be entered in the general module settings.

Message tab

In this tab, you will create the actual message.

In the window on the left, the fields for the signals defined in the Fields tab are displayed in the form of a signal tree.

Below this, all projected data stores and image triggers are displayed. These data records and image trigger fields always refer to the path of the last data file or the last images.

These data stores and image trigger fields always refer to the path of the last data file or the last images.

Select the desired account and enter the standard information such as recipient, CC and subject as well as the message text. You can also use fields with text signals in the lines To, Cc and Bc, and can thus enter the addressees dynamically. For example, if an e-mail is to be sent to a different recipient on weekdays than on weekends.

For the E-Mail trigger, select whether the sending of e-mail should be triggered at the start or stop of acquisition or by a digital signal.

A dead time (default 10 seconds) prevents the e-mail from being sent multiple times should the trigger signal be triggered several times in quick succession.

With the Send retry period and Total retry time settings, you can determine the intervals at which, and over how long in total, a failed transmission of an e-mail is repeated.

If you enable the option Mark retries with [Delayed message...] in subject, then this note is automatically inserted in the subject line if the e-mail could only be sent after several failed attempts.

With the <Send test e-mail> button, you can send the e-mail without the trigger signal being triggered or the measurement running. If the measurement is not running and the configured fields have no values then the names of the fields are entered in the e-mail.

Using the fields

In addition to static input, you can add fields as placeholders in various places, thus dynamically shaping your e-mail.

The following table shows where you can add which fields and what impact this has.

A field can be added at the desired location in the entry fields, Subject, Text and Attachment, in the following ways:

• By double-clicking on the field; the field will be inserted in the text at the cursor position

• By dragging and dropping

• By manual entry of the field name in square brackets

The fields are highlighted in the text with red, bold characters to indicate that these points are later replaced by actual values.

Data storages cannot be added as an attachment as data files are often too large for e-mailing and have not yet been concluded by ibaPDA when the e-mail is sent.

If you want to send multiple attachments, they must be separated by semicolons.

Entries in the Attachment field must always be the full path and file name of the files that you want to attach.

The path and file name can be formed in different ways: