Section Products/FaxWare/FaxWare 4

Utilities included as standard Many utilities are included as standard with FaxWare. These utilities are not necessarily required to send and receive faxes. However, in some cases they provide very useful functions. Evaluation of the send and receive logs In addition to the export function of the Windows Frontend, there is a further tool available to evaluate the FaxWare logs. The program REPORTER.EXE runs under DOS and provides extensive evaluation possibilites. By means of freely configurable initialization files (in ASCII format) the logs can be evaluated according to the user, costs, period of time, status of dispatch, line, etc. The selection can be carried out as printer output, in file form or just on the screen. This way, nothing remains in the dark. Data import from static databases The utility FWIMPORT currently runs as an NLM on the server and reads out any static databases with a fixed data record size. Through the time-driven execution, all fax numbers and addresses from an order processing program can for example be automatically adopted into the FaxWare phonebooks at night. Therefore, the special maintenance of several phonebooks is no longer necessary. Data import from Windows ODBC databases The Windows program FWODBC.EXE allows for importing numbers from external databases which can be accessed over the ODBC standard. Therefore, data from ODBC databases (e.g. Microsoft Excel, dBase, Gupta SQL, etc.) can be adopted into the FaxWare phonebooks. A »misuse« of the phonebooks is also possible. Book-keeping data can for example be imported and will always be available and current on each client. Print server for Windows Sometimes not all faxes are to be printed centrally over the server. With the Windows program FWPRINT.EXE you can for example print fax files locally. This program runs on a client on the network. Depending on the configuration, it automatically prints out all fax files sent and received. FaxWare configuration under Windows Generally the FaxWare configuration is directly carried out on the server console. With the utility FWCONFIG.EXE you can carry out all essential settings of the FaxWare users and groups on a Windows client. Of course, there are special safety mechanisms, so that an unauthorized user cannot »exchange« for example the signature files of the FaxWare users. Interface for software developers The Windows utility FAPIDDE.EXE establishes a connection possibility to the FaxWare API interface (FAPI) by means of general DDE commands. Therefore, programs which are not able to establish a connection to the DLL interface can transport data to the FaxWare server over »DDE message calls« or retrieve information. Faxing with an HP PCL printer driver The PCL Conversion Server currently runs as an NLM on the FaxWare server and allows DOS users to fax from applications over an HP PCL compatible printer driver. In the FaxWare configuration you only have to configure a fax service (FileFax or Queue Services) for the conversion of HP PCL jobs. Then fax jobs will be automatically forwarded to the PCL Conversion Server, converted and transmitted back to FaxWare. The user does not notice anything of this. In DOS applications for example, he will however have a lot more design possibilities.