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Section Products/FaxWare/FaxWare 4
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Sending faxes
By means of a little example we would like to show you how these
three modules work together. A document is to be faxed from any
Windows application. The user opens the menu »File«
in his application, selects »Print« and selects the
FaxWare 4 printer driver. This printer driver converts the document
into a bitmap and saves it on the hard disk of the server. Afterwards
a FaxWare 4 window will pop up. Here, the user will be asked to
enter a fax number. In addition, a lot of other »parameters«
for fax dispatch can also be directly set at this point.
After clicking on the »OK« button the user will automatically
return to his application. That's it! The Service Layer will now
convert the fax into fax format. On this occasion, a form
will be included, the user's signature will be inserted or a coverpage
will be created if this is desired. Afterwards the job will be
registered in the job log and will be released at the defined
point in time. Then the Transport Layer goes into action. It sends
the fax and reports the status to the Service Layer. The Service
Layer will create an entry in the send log and if necessary inform
the user through a Broadcast or by a pop up
FaxWare Frontend. Optionally, an automatic protocol printout on
a network printer can be set.
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Under DOS the fax dispatch works in the same way. However, no
bitmap is given to the Service Layer but the text is passed on
to the Service Layer directly in ASCII format. Of course, the
user can integrate all text attributes such as bold type, italics,
inverse type or underlined text direct in the document. Now FaxWare
works exactly like a needle printer and automatically creates
the corresponding fax format. Here the advantage of the server
based fax conversion becomes particularly clear, for you can directly
include a form, etc. even in a simple fax which is given to the
Service Layer as a text.
Independent from the operating system
No matter if you work under DOS or Windows, everything which you
can do under Windows also applies to DOS. It is particularly important
that there is only one single send and receive log for all users
respectively. It is managed centrally on the server and only those
entries meant for the user will be displayed in the Frontend programs.
The "equal rights for everybody" also apply to the fax
viewer. Faxes sent under Windows can afterwards be viewed with
the DOS fax viewer and vice versa.
Use of FaxWare commands
Tobit FaxWare 4 recognizes more than 50 commands which determine
the addressing of created fax jobs and are responsible for the
layout of a fax. They can be inserted in the text
by means of predefined commands or they can be conveniently
transmitted through the respective Frontends to the FaxWare Service
Layer.
The FaxWare commands are introduced with a command ID. This term
describes the character sequence which makes the Service Layer
switch to the command mode. The command ID consists of two »at
symbols« (@@). Whenever the Service Layer discovers this command ID in
a fax job, it will try to interpret the following
characters as a command. Of course, the text stated behind this
command ID will not be contained in the outgoing fax. The command
@@NUMBER +441414203761@@
for example makes sure that a fax is sent to the above number.
The command @@DELIVERY OPTIMIZED@@
defines that a fax will not be sent directly but during the cheap
rate time.
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