[Tip] Faxing from within Servoy

by Jan Aleman
Servoy

To fax from within Servoy there are a quite few options: specialised fax software, fax gateways, special hardware, web services, fax beans, etc. Probably the easiest is an email to fax service. I found one at:

http://www.interfax.net

They offer a free developer account. You can email plain text but also a pdf. Create a pdf in Servoy and email it to the service. For example to email the current record of the current form you can use the following method:

//print the current form as pdf into a variable
var success = plugins.pdf_output.startMetaPrintJob()
if (success)
{
   controller.print(true,false,plugins.pdf_output.getPDFPrinter());
}
var thePdf = plugins.pdf_output.endMetaPrintJob()
//email it to the fax service
var attachment1 = plugins.mail.createBinaryAttachment('fax.pdf',thePdf);
var succes = plugins.mail.sendMail('+31842242422@fax.tc',
'jaleman@servoy.com', "Here's a fax", '',null,null,new Array(attachment1));
if (!succes)
{
   plugins.dialogs.showWarningDialog('Alert','Failed to send fax','OK');
}

Replace +31842242422 with the fax number you want to fax to. Replace jaleman@servoy.com with the email that is registered with interfax. If you implement this in a solution you'd obviously have the fax number come out of a (related) field.

Isn't Servoy amazing? You can implement faxing in your solution in less than 5 minutes!

NOTE: This tip uses the Pdf printer plugin by Rumora, if you don't have it yet you can download it here:
http://forum.servoy.com/download.php?id=383
(the link above will only work if you are logged in to the forum)