Sending invoices fax and e-mail with FJ Powercobol

Hi,
I have to build a program that using in FJ Powercobol v7
allow me to send for fax and for e-mail the invoices of the clients.
Every suggestion is well I accept.
The best regards,
Massimo from Rome Italy.

We do it in follow way:

a) mail: the cobol program creates the invoice in pdf-form,
prepares the content of the mail (from, to, body, etc)
and starts the mail with the attachment "invoice-pdf-file"
via exec

b) fax: there is a fax-server (other or the same computer with fax
software, f.e. a linux with halifax;
this fax-server is for the cobol program a printer; depending of
fax software the fax-tel-nomero is integrated in the invoice.



Massimo wrote:

> Hi,
> I have to build a program that using in FJ Powercobol v7
> allow me to send for fax and for e-mail the invoices of the clients.
> Every suggestion is well I accept.
> The best regards,
> Massimo from Rome Italy.

--
Vaclav Snajdr

Massimo wrote:
> I have to build a program that using in FJ Powercobol v7
> allow me to send for fax and for e-mail the invoices of the clients.
>

For Windows, there is a free program named "sendmail.exe" which is a port of
 the
unix program.  It runs on command line so you can execute from inside Fujits
u,
something like "invoke pow-self "execute" using "sendmail textfile.txt".
If you are interested and cannot find the program by search then maybe I can
 find
where I have it (I haven't used it for years but I keep everything). Good lu
ck!

Massimo wrote:
> Hi,
> I have to build a program that using in FJ Powercobol v7
> allow me to send for fax and for e-mail the invoices of the clients.
> Every suggestion is well I accept.
> The best regards,
> Massimo from Rome Italy.

You've got two distinct issues:

1. Creating the invoice: I'd use PowerForm and send the invoice to a PDF
printer (not a real printer, it creates a file in PDF format).

2. Sending the result: Launch an email dohicky and send the created file. We
use NSMAIL to send our stuff.

Massimo wrote:

> I have to build a program that using in FJ Powercobol v7
> allow me to send for fax and for e-mail the invoices of the clients.
> Every suggestion is well I accept.

It should be easy to build a command line and execute it to do the
actual sending.  What is to be sent could be a simple text file which
is easy to write, but you probably want some graphic form such as .PDF
which is both a better company image and is less alterable.

I merge data items into a PDF file to create forms.  PDF can be just
text with markup. I use a graphics editor to draw up the form and
output it as a PDF file.  In the form I tag the areas I want to merge
into with <!%name%> markers that deliminate the width and length of the
area.

It is relaively easy to process the resulting PDF to change the tags to
data (though I actually do it in a C program) which may then be
printed, EMailed or FAXed.

Note that some graphics editors are not suitable for this work as they
do not maintain the tagged fields contiguously.  I use tgif which is
clunky but usable.

The solution is OK, but as I do to send the document
to the e-mail of the client or to the fax?
I have the number of fax in the database of the client.
How linK the document to the number of fax or e-mail ?
regards,
Massimo.


"Vaclav Snajdr" <snajdr.vaclav@t-online.de> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:elbe3u$5qn$01$1@news.t-online.com...
> We do it in follow way:
>
> a) mail: the cobol program creates the invoice in pdf-form,
>         prepares the content of the mail (from, to, body, etc)
>         and starts the mail with the attachment "invoice-pdf-file"
>         via exec
>
> b) fax: there is a fax-server (other or the same computer with fax
>   software, f.e. a linux with halifax;
>   this fax-server is for the cobol program a printer; depending of
>   fax software the fax-tel-nomero is integrated in the invoice.
>
>
>
> Massimo wrote:
> 
>
> --
> Vaclav Snajdr

The solution is OK, but as I do to send the document
to the e-mail of the client or to the fax?
I have the number of fax in the database of the client.
How linK the document to the number of fax or e-mail ?
regards,
Massimo.

"Robin Lee" <robinlee@news.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
 news:5r2dnV3XK6Ur7eTYnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d@gi
ganews.com...
> Massimo wrote: 
>
> For Windows, there is a free program named "sendmail.exe" which is a port
> of the unix program.  It runs on command line so you can execute from
> inside Fujitsu, something like "invoke pow-self "execute" using "sendmail
> textfile.txt".
> If you are interested and cannot find the program by search then maybe I
> can find where I have it (I haven't used it for years but I keep
> everything). Good luck!

The solution is OK, but as I do to send the document
to the e-mail of the client or to the fax?
I have the number of fax in the database of the client.
How linK the document to the number of fax or e-mail ?
regards,
Massimo.

"HeyBub" <heybubNOSPAM@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:12nj2bo8b3k9m2b@news.supernews.com...
> Massimo wrote: 
>
> You've got two distinct issues:
>
> 1. Creating the invoice: I'd use PowerForm and send the invoice to a PDF
> printer (not a real printer, it creates a file in PDF format).
>
> 2. Sending the result: Launch an email dohicky and send the created file.
> We use NSMAIL to send our stuff.
>

The solution is OK, but as I do to send the document
to the e-mail of the client or to the fax?
I have the number of fax in the database of the client.
How linK the document to the number of fax or e-mail ?
regards,

Massimo.

"Richard" <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:1165606928.493325.15400@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com...
>
> Massimo wrote:
> 
>
> It should be easy to build a command line and execute it to do the
> actual sending.  What is to be sent could be a simple text file which
> is easy to write, but you probably want some graphic form such as .PDF
> which is both a better company image and is less alterable.
>
> I merge data items into a PDF file to create forms.  PDF can be just
> text with markup. I use a graphics editor to draw up the form and
> output it as a PDF file.  In the form I tag the areas I want to merge
> into with <!%name%> markers that deliminate the width and length of the
> area.
>
> It is relaively easy to process the resulting PDF to change the tags to
> data (though I actually do it in a C program) which may then be
> printed, EMailed or FAXed.
>
> Note that some graphics editors are not suitable for this work as they
> do not maintain the tagged fields contiguously.  I use tgif which is
> clunky but usable.
>

Massimo wrote (x4):
> The solution is OK, but as I do to send the document
> to the e-mail of the client or to the fax?
> I have the number of fax in the database of the client.
> How linK the document to the number of fax or e-mail ?
> regards,
> Massimo.

Just a tip - this is a public forum, so you don't have to post the same
thing several different times.  :)  Even though you're replying to one
person in particular, we can all see it.

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