Unable to create a report to be sent by an automation

Hello :wave:

I installed the RSS news anchor but I have no idea how to make it create a report daily and sent it to my email.

On automations, there is an action called “send report” who’s description says “Generate a report and send it to specified members or groups”:

But on the actions options I don’t find any option to generate a report.

Am I missing something? what is the right way to generate a report daily and send it to my email?

Thanks! :pray:

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Hi @Aaron , welcome back! :wave:

If you just want the report to be sent to your own email, you can simply add a skillset (bika-email) inside your RSS News Anchor agent.

Then, in your prompt, include an instruction for the agent to automatically send the email to you — for example:

“After generating the report, please send it to me via email in markdown format.” (The exact prompt is up to you.)

You can also tell the agent directly in chat to email the report once it’s ready.

The “Send Report” action is mainly used within Automations — it’s designed to share updates or progress reports with specific members or groups.

If you’re not building an automation and just want the daily report for yourself, the first method above is the simplest way to go.

Hello @Thea :wave:

Thank you so much for your reply, I could not test this earlier as I had no credits left :sweat_smile: (I really think you should offer a way to purchase credits for those that are in a LTD, that way you could make money form us to :wink:).

Understood! I asked to generate the report and send me an email and it did it, smooth :+1:t3:

Ah, ok, that was interesting. I did that, now I will wait to see if it does it or not :sweat_smile: the issue about doing it this way and not via an automation, is that in case is not working I have no way to troubleshoot the issue. In Automation I can see the steps and try to figure out which step is not working, what shall I do if the report is not generated once a day automatically? or if it does for a few times and then it stops?

Ah, alright!

On another note, is GREAT that you are creating videos and that you released one for the News Anchor, but maybe before putting time on creating the video, share the script of the video with one of your users and ask for feedback. The video is missing a real explanation of how to automate sending the report.

Love! :green_heart:

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Hi @Aaron ,

Really appreciate the detailed follow-up, and glad to hear you got it working smoothly! :raised_hands:

You’re absolutely right about the tradeoff here. I’ve shared your feedback around visibility / troubleshooting and credit top-ups for LTD users with the team for discussion.

Thanks as well for the feedback on the News Anchor video. That’s a great suggestion, and we’ll try to add more practical details and clarity around automation use cases going forward.

Appreciate you taking the time to share such thoughtful feedback, it really helps us improve things in the right direction :purple_heart:

Hello @Thea :wave:

I can confirm that that adding the instruction to send me an email daily to the prompt didn’t work.

This is what I added to it

  1. Summarize daily news once a day 8am Eastern European Time and after generating the report send it to me via email in HTML format

But I haven’t received any email with the news.

Hi @Aaron ,

Sorry for misunderstanding your intention earlier. I had assumed you were asking the agent to email you after a manual chat run, not to have it send the report automatically every day.

If you want the report sent to you once a day at a fixed time, you will need to set up a separate Automation:

  1. Use Schedule as the trigger (for example, every day at 8 am Eastern European Time).
  2. Add a Call Agent action and select your RSS News Anchor, as shown in the screenshot below.

For the prompt in the Call Agent action, you can set something like:

After generating the report, send it to me via email in HTML format.

With this setup, the automation will run at the scheduled time, call the agent, and the agent will email you the report.

Hope this helps, and sorry again for the earlier confusion.

Good day Mr. Aaron, please i need more insight on this please

Hello @Thea :wave:

Thank you for your further help! Now I can now confirm that doing it though automation it works (at least with a manual run, but of course I expect it to work with a scheduler too) :smiling_face:

It would be great to include this information in the RSS News Anchor you posted in Youtube.

Thank you! :pray::green_heart:

What do you mean?

Hi @Aaron , great to hear it’s working now, and thanks so much for the suggestion about the YouTube video. We’ll update the guide to include a scheduler example for generating daily news reports with this agent.