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Emailing RTMC screen shots


dberdes Feb 22, 2017 05:23 PM

I have an RTMC project with two screens (tabs) created in RTMC Pro Development V 4.2.0.28 and run in RTMC Run-Time V 4.2.0.28.  I need the ability to take screen shots of this project (two tabs) and and attach them to an email to be sent at a specific time of each day.

Is this possible?  I have already figured out how to take screen shots of this project but from what I can see, there is no ability to take screen shots at a specific time, only on a time interval.


meteor Feb 26, 2017 06:50 AM

Take screenshots every minute (or other interval) and use "Task Scheduler" from Windows to run a batch file at a specific time.
For sending emails you can use e.g. the freeware BLAT.


tmecham Feb 27, 2017 04:24 PM

The easiest way to accomplish this is with the Report Export component in RTMC Pro. Place a Report Export component on each screens you want exported with the Batch Export Options set to PDF and the Batch Event set to Email.  Then, in the Export Event Setup click the Email button, and select the PDF so that the generated PDF file gets attached to the email every time the project is run in batch mode.

To run the project in batch mode, you will need to setup a LoggerNet Task. Go to Task Master and create a new Scheduled Task.  Setup how the task starts (Noon every day or something).  Then setup the task to execute RTMC run-time (Default: C:\Program Files (x86)\Campbellsci\RTMC\RTMC_Run-time.exe) and on the command line options specify:

 --run_report="c:\campbellsci\rtmc\Your Project.rtmc2"

Then, everytime your task executes, you will be emailed a report with the PDF attached.

You would need a report export on each screen you want exported.  Then, everytime the task executes, it goes through each tab of your project and generates a report for each screen with a Report Export and emails them to you.

Hope this helps

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