# Send email with secured link to Perspective page

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/send-email-with-secured-link-to-perspective-page/96134>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [September 18, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/send-email-with-secured-link-to-perspective-page/96134 "2024-09-18T15:22:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![flavien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@flavien](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/flavien)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/send-email-with-secured-link-to-perspective-page/96134/1 "2024-09-18T15:22:35Z")

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Hello,

I would like to send email notification containing an URL to a perspective page. When user follow this link, is it possible to autologin to the page ? I would like to directly connect without using username and password.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/send-email-with-secured-link-to-perspective-page/96134/2 "2024-09-18T16:17:11Z")

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Where is the email coming from? The Ignition gateway or from somewhere else?

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**Author:** ![flavien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@flavien](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/flavien)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/send-email-with-secured-link-to-perspective-page/96134/3 "2024-09-19T15:11:07Z")

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From the Ignition Gateway (Report Module or Gateway Script) using an SMTP

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**Author:** ![flavien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@flavien](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/flavien)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/send-email-with-secured-link-to-perspective-page/96134/5 "2024-09-19T15:28:18Z")

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Each week we send an email with a PDF containing Data Overview.  
Instead of sending a pdf I would like to send a link to a perspective view with auto-logging.

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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/send-email-with-secured-link-to-perspective-page/96134/6 "2024-09-19T15:44:32Z")

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> [@flavien](#):
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> I would like to send email notification containing an URL to a perspective page.

OK. I think we have a small language problem here. Maybe, "_I would like to send email notification containing an URL **of** a perspective page._" You want to send an email to a list of users and the email will contain a link to a Perspective page. I read it that you wanted to send an email to a Perspective page.

What do you mean by "secured link"?

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**Author:** ![flavien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@flavien](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/flavien)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/send-email-with-secured-link-to-perspective-page/96134/7 "2024-09-20T07:46:59Z")

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Yeah exactly 😆

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**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/send-email-with-secured-link-to-perspective-page/96134/8 "2024-09-20T11:33:11Z")

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The only (sort of) secure autologins on links are with **TEMPORARY** (and idealy even single use) tokens.  
It seems weird to send a summary that is a link that would only work for a short duration.

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**Author:** ![michael.flagler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.flagler/32/26272_2.png) [@michael.flagler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.flagler)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/send-email-with-secured-link-to-perspective-page/96134/9 "2024-09-20T14:53:21Z")

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I think the only way you could really do this as things stand right now would be to have a separate project that is public with a special URL where one of the parameters is passed with some sort of "token" that's saved in a DB, and when the user clicks the link with that token, if the token doesn't exist in the DB it shows an error, otherwise you show the respective page/report, etc related to that token.

Keep in mind that this would be public without any security AT ALL. So anyone with that link could access it.
