[Anonymous]

Hi All,
I am a VB developer and have been charged with creating a program which will send and recieve faxes automatically. The sending is to be based on the contents of a database table and the receiving is also to be handled by the application and if possible the incoming fax details to be also stored.
I am not familiar with the Winfax Component and was wondering if one of you could asnwer the following questions :

Is what I have been asked to do possible using Winfax?
I have Winfax Version 8.03 on my development machine, is it necessary to upgrade to Version 10?
The SDKSend VB sample from Symantec works fine on my machine – Would this be a good basis for my project?
Is there anything I should know or thoughts that spring to mind in relation to this project?
Are there any links or samples which closely relate to what I wish to achieve?

I have read through a number of the posts already but cant find answers to the above questions. I would really appreciate any help you might be able to give me.

Regards Kenneth

[Anonymous]

processing incoming faxes is a little more difficult, depending on what you need to do. However, sending faxes is much easier.
Also , WinFax PRO 8.03 is not acceptable for sending faxes due to Y2K related problems. You’ll need at least version WinFax PRO 9.03 , TalkWorks PRO 3.0 or WinFax PRO 10.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply, I will get the upgrade.

For incoming faxes I need to access and store information such as the senders number, subject etc. I cant clearly tell from the documentation how to do this. I have noticed the sendEventObj_ReceivedEvent in the SDKEvents sample, but it only seems to allow access to the entryID, you say that its a little more difficult, how would one start to go about it?

Thanks
Kenneth

[Anonymous]

receive data really only consists of CSID (Callers Station Id) which is whatever they programmed on their fax device. You don’t get sender number , or subject from a received fax. A received fax is really only a graphic image when it is received by WinFax. WinFax can process the fax by automatically printing it, or storing an entry in its logs to the fax time & date, # pages, and CSID (if received)

[Anonymous]

I am glad to know that the receive information is not available rather than banging my head against the wall try to access it.

Thank you for your help.

[Anonymous]

Just FYI i am using the SDKLog object to access the faxes in the Receive log and this gives me all the information I need about incoming faxes.

Also it means I dont have to trap the information as the fax is being recieved and so if my application is not running when a fax is received it can read the new details at a later date.

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