EMAIL-INITIATED REPORT SERVICE

摘要

An email sent from a user device can be received at a common email address of an enterprise resource planning server system. The email can be parsed to extract parameters to generate custom reports that are sent back the sender of the received email. The parameters can determine the type of report, the format of the report, and what data to include in the report. Authentication can restrict sending of reports to authorized users of the system.

主权项

1. A method of generating a custom report implemented at least in part by a computing system comprising a computing device, the method comprising:
by the computing system:
receiving an email message, wherein the email message is addressed to a common email address;determining, based on a sender address of the email message, an identity of a sender of the received email message;extracting one or more report request parameters from the email message;transforming the one or more report request parameters into a report generator service request comprising one or more report generator service request parameters;sending the report generator service request comprising the one or more report generator service request parameters to a report generator service;responsive to the report generator service request, receiving the custom report from the report generator service; andsending the custom report to the sender of the received email message by email.