Data Protection Advisor: How to Add a Customized Message in Email Reports

Summary: If you are required to send daily or weekly reports in HTML format to customers, and you accomplish this with scheduled reports, then you can add custom text (such as a message or company contact information) to the scheduled report by creating a custom VTL template. The custom text displays for all HTML reports using this template. ...

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Instructions

Procedure

  1. In the Styles or VTL templates directory on the Data Protection Advisor (DPA) Server, copy the table template, table.vtl, and rename it. For example, if you are creating a VTL template for table reports for the company EMC, use the naming standard of table.emc.vtl.
  2. Open the VTL in a text editor.
  3. Using HTML tags, add text similar to the following within the body.
<body bgcolor="$background"><font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-serif" color="$foreground">
<body>
Dear customer,
<p>

Your daily system status report is below.
<p>
Thank you,<br>
EMC Corporation
<p>
<a href="www.dell.com/support/incidents-online/ContactUs/Dynamic?">Contact Technical Support</a><br>
Email:support@EMC.com<br>
Website: www.EMC.com
<p>
<table>
........
</table>
</body>
  1. Save the VTL.


Procedure:

  1. In the DPA web console, create a new or update an existing scheduled report.
  2. In Publish Settings, select the Web Page (.html) report format and complete the remaining fields.
  3. In Advanced, select the EMC template and then click OK. The template that is named Default is the unedited table.vtl.
  4. Click the test icon to send the scheduled report to the Publisher. If you publish to file, go to the default directory to view the report, and then make any necessary updates to the VTL template. The default directory of the report is <install-dir\services\shared\report-results\scheduled.>.
  5. If no further updates are required to the VTL template, save and close the Scheduled Report Editor.

Affected Products

Data Protection Advisor

Products

Data Protection Advisor
Article Properties
Article Number: 000022411
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 08 يوليو 2026
Version:  6
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