Is there a way to create a weekly email containing the activity information on the Admin Dashboard page? Primarily the items under Community Health and User Metrics.

You can use Data Explorer to get the data and the #automation plugin to send the results of the query as a personal message. [image] Data-Explorer Automated Emails? Support Actually… I may have panicked a little and got my facts wrong. I think it is possible to do this using the ‘Schedule a PM with Data Explorer results’ automation. This will send a PM, which (depending on your ‘Email me when I am sent a personal message’ preferences) will also send out an email. [Schedule a PM with Data Explorer results' automation] You can also set an email as the recipient directly too. +1 You would need to give that group access to the report first from the query so they…

I added this CSS to my theme. This will allow you to print the admin dashboard without the sidebar and other unnecessary widgets showing up. In general this makes other pages more printable too. I just printed mine to PDF and I could manually do this every Sunday let’s say in order to store snapshots of my site statistics. @media print { #main-outlet-wrapper { display: block; } .sidebar-wrapper, .d-page-header, nav { display: none; } #main-outlet { width: 100%; padding: 2em !important; max-width: unset; } } In terms of automating the print so it could be put in a cron job, so far I have not been successful. Here is an attempt. Currently returns 404, I assume because auth is failing, though I did copy cookies from devtools. Maybe I’m missing some nuance of auth. Also I don’t know if the charts would load properly before the print is triggered. #!/bin/bash # Define URL and output filename DATE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d") OUTPUT="${DATE} Site Report.pdf" DOMAIN="mysite.org" COOKIES_DB="$HOME/.config/chromium/Default/Cookies" COOKIES_FILE="./cookies.txt" # copy cookies out of devtools and place here COOKIE_HEADER=$(cat $COOKIES_FILE) #echo "$COOKIE_HEADER" # Run Chrome or Chromium headless to print to PDF chromium --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf="$OUTPUT" \ --extra-headers="Cookie: $COOKIE_HEADER" \ --extra-headers="Accept: text/html" \ --extra-headers="Accept-Encoding: gzip" \ --extra-headers="Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9" \ "https://$DOMAIN/admin" echo "Saved to $OUTPUT"

How to send email with Admin Dashboard information

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Sean_Li (Sean Li) December 23, 2024, 6:14pm 3

is there no way to do this with stock Discourse? as it already has the visualizations that I need for the information.

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How to send email with Admin Dashboard information

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