topic Re: How to distribute VA reports to a generic mailbox in SAS Visual Analytics

How to distribute VA reports to a generic mailbox

viswmmo — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:58:23 GMT

Hi,

does someone have an idea of how to add a generic/shared mailboxadress as recipient of a distributed report in Visual Analytics?

I can add users or groups as recipients, if they exist in AD. But we don't have generic/shared mailboxadresses as members in AD.

We use Viya version 8.5.

Kind regards

Mattias

Re: How to distribute VA reports to a generic mailbox

New2SASProgram — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 17:57:39 GMT

The only way I know of is in your email server. I know Exchange offers the ability to create email groups. I believe Sendmail does too, but I haven't configured that for a long time now. I would expect any email server to do the same.

Re: How to distribute VA reports to a generic mailbox

Madelyn_SAS — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:16:49 GMT

Visual Analytics uses the Identities service to pull user information from the LDAP server directly. Therefore, user information such as phone number, work address, and email address must exist in LDAP. In addition, only users have have logged in at least one can receive a distribution. If you could create a 'dummy' account in LDAP with the email address you want to use, and have an administrator use that account to log in at least once, you should be able to accomplish this.