Automated email with report

[Giles_Camargo]

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to automate an email with a report. But unfortunately the email content was only the syntax  {$ report}

The butler command is:
every day at 11:30 am, create a report with all cards in list "Definições Recentes", and send an email notification to "gilescamargo@gmail.com" with subject "Relatório" and message "{$ report}"

Email resulted:

What am I doing wrong?

[Ludo · Accepted solution]

Hi 

You have forgotten to define the variable.

Try this 

every day at 11:30 am, create a report in variable "Report" with all cards...

... and message "{$Report}"

Without space between $ and Report.

[Giles_Camargo]

It worked! Thanks so much!

[Ludo]

👍

[robynlee]

Hello! Just reading this: it would seem to suggest that you can get Butler to email reports to email addresses not linked to members of that Board. Is that correct?

To be clear: my boss wants to automatically have a report of 'Done' tasks emailed to me weekly, but does not want to make me a member of the Board in question. 

Is this possible? Thank you!

[Ludo]

Yes. Everybody can receive this report. 

[robynlee]

Thank you so much - that's great news. 

One extra question though: from https://help.trello.com/article/1192-creating-reports-with-butler it looks like the report generated contains links to the various cards... if I am not a member of the Board, will I be able to access those cards?

If not - is there a way of specifying in the Butler command that 'Description' be included in the Report?

Thank you 

[Ludo]

For seeing the card, it must at least be declared as an observer (not necessary a member).

To include description in the report, just add a pattern for the report 

every day at 11:30 am, create a report in variable "MyReport" with all cards due today
with an incomplete due date using pattern "- [{cardname}] ({cardlink}) ({cardmemberusernames}) ({carddescription})"
and send an email notification to "@gmail.com" with subject "Not completed" and message "{$MyReport}"