This is not an external tool, it is a set of custom EnterpriseOne® Objects, including a custom native JDE C BSFN, plus a DLL file.

This BSFN, in conjunction with the supplied DLL, is used to send faxes through the internal built-in Windows® Fax Engine.

It can, essentially, replace the need for any expensive third-party fax software.

The BSFN included in this Package accepts the target file name and the destination fax number and, optionally, the Fax Server Name, as the only input parameters. It is very easy to utilize this functionality in any C or ER code.

For example, to fax the Remittance Advises, you would normally have a Parent UBE, retrieving the Suppliers with any non-0 paid amounts along with their contact details and then submitting a Child UBE synchronously through Interconnect, which would produce the final Remittance Advise PDF per Supplier. For each Child UBE run, after it finishes, the Parent UBE can call this Business Function, passing the Fax Number it had previously retrieved and the PDF file name.

If the infrastructure described above is already in place, to modify the Parent UBE to leverage our solution will only take a few minutes. It's quite clear, how this solution can save you thousands of dollars, which you will not have to spend on 3rd party forms software, while at the same time freeing valuable resources for other tasks.

This modification has been exported with Boomerang into a Boomerang Package. It can be installed on the target system with our free Boomerang Lite.

Most OneWorld/EnterpriseOne® sites need this functionality. The ability to FAX Reports (or any other documents, including Text, Word, Excel, JPG, etc. documents) is very important and is often critical. Usually, this functionality (along with formatting, etc.) is provided by third-party Forms software (such as Create!Print®, Optio® or JetForms®), but such software is pretty expensive, especially, if FAX'ing is the only functionality you really need out of it.

In fact, if you purchase AUTOPRINT as well as this Boomerang Package, you will be able (with some customization) to combine the two to achieve automatic FAX'ing of your PDF reports.

Once you Install and Deploy this Boomerang Package, you will be able to start developing your own FAX-aware programs, by simply calling the new B59FAX BSFN in your code as necessary, passing it the (optional) FAX Server name, FAX number and the full path to the document to be FAX'ed in a Data Structure - same as any other BSFN. FAX Errors, if any, are reported back in the same Data Structure in text. The BSFN uses Windows® 2000/XP/2003 internal FAX driver. To send FAX'es remotely (that is: through a central FAX Server) the Server must be running Windows® 2003, to FAX from a local machine, the computer must have it's own FAX-Modem attached. Of course, this BSFN is Windows/Intel-specific and cannot be run/built from/on any other non-Windows/Intel platform.

There is no expensive consulting necessary on top of this. You can easily install it yourself. Just follow the instructions included in the Package. No user training is required either. Estimated time it takes to install this Package is 1 minute, plus additional 5 minutes to build and deploy an Update Package with a couple of Objects.

A test APPL Program is included with this Boomerang Package to demonstrate the use of the BSFN and provide an easy means of testing your FAX setup: