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How does
eFax
work?
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The
data to be sent is stored in a pure ASCII text file e.g. 100001.txt, so any
application can be designed or modified to send data via eFax.
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Within
the directory, each document must have a corresponding property file, for
example a document name ‘100001.txt’, must have properties in a file
‘100001_prop’.
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The
properties file contains the information required to direct the document to
the following devices; email, fax or SMS. This ASCII file has to be a
specific format.
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Once
the document has been received into the eFax system, a history of items is
available for viewing. The status of all methods includes; Sending, Sent and
Failed items.
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OSMOSiS eFax consolidates items of the same “address” into one
transmission.
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If a
document fails to send it can be re-sent a number of times. The number of
retries is user-defined.
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The sent documents are also filed in a “Recipient”
outbox. Each recipient is given their own box making it easy to view their
sent documents without having to go through the whole “sent box”. The
document is only stored once so there is a reference in the sent box and the
same reference in the recipient’s box.
Templates
Templates
in OSMOSiS eFax are used to send a complete document with logos and any other
graphics. If, for example, it is required to send an invoice via this method,
the user would scan in a blank invoice template which is then allocated to a
specific output by defining its stored path in the properties file of any
invoice document. This will “overprint” the text onto the scanned “picture”
document and send the resulting image.
There are routines to help
with alignment, sizing, rotation etc. between the template and “test” document.
Reporting
Reporting
facilities include, daily, weekly, monthly and annual reports which show sent,
failed and the number of retries amongst other data.
More Information
The complete OSMOSiS information set can be
downloaded (3285.44 KB)
here. For more information,
email
osmosis@jbase.com!
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