Section Products/FaxWare/FaxWare 4

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. 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.