# Looking for confirmation: we cannot use the watcher to 'just' generate reports
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-confirmation-we-cannot-use-the-watcher-to-just-generate-reports/343728
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-reporting
**Created:** [September 25, 2023, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-confirmation-we-cannot-use-the-watcher-to-just-generate-reports/343728 "2023-09-25T09:21:03Z")
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### Author:  [@mpjjonker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mpjjonker)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2023, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-confirmation-we-cannot-use-the-watcher-to-just-generate-reports/343728/1 "2023-09-25T09:21:03Z")
My use case is to schedule reporting but NOT to e-mail them as attachment.
On this page, there is an option to call the API using a script, of course we can do this, but than we have to find a scheduling solution outside Elastic.
> **[Automatically generate reports | Kibana Guide \[8.10\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/automating-report-generation.html)**
In the list of actions, there is no 'create report' action.
> **[Watcher actions | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.10\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/actions.html)**
The confirmation I am looking for is:
The only way to achieve this, is by using an external scheduling solution and make the api calls from there.
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### Author:  [@TimBosman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimBosman)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2023, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-confirmation-we-cannot-use-the-watcher-to-just-generate-reports/343728/2 "2023-10-03T09:19:12Z")
Hey Michel,
It is not possible to add it to the email contents from creating a CSV report. The documentation says `Reporting is integrated with Watcher only as an email attachment type.`.
What you might want to do is something that is described here: [How to parse Watcher/Aggs in JSON format into a table automatically?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-watcher-aggs-in-json-format-into-a-table-automatically/247623)
I hope that helps,
Tim
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-confirmation-we-cannot-use-the-watcher-to-just-generate-reports/343728/3 "2023-10-31T09:19:18Z")
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