If you have got a Fax system on your Windows network or station, then, you should be able to use it from your AS/400 with LAUNCHER Office.
The fax system can be a “Printer Fax driver” or a “Domino/Exchange fax connector”.
1) Printer Fax driver
With such a system, to send a document by fax, you just have to print it, using a special printer driver configured on your PC.
Then the printer driver ask you for the phone number; Or the phone number is embedded in the document, hidden, with a special prefix (Manufacturer dependant).
For LAUNCHER Office, you must be able to embed the phone number in the document.
See your fax software documentation for this feature.
In the document template, the phone number must be inserted via a merge field, or via a bookmark.
Use LNCPRTDOC to merge the template, and the database record containing the phone number and all other variable fields.
Use LNCCMD command to print:
LNCCMD CMD(WPRINT) PARM1(‘Printer=”Name of fax/printer driver”’)
2) Domino or Exchange fax connector
With a fax connector on Domino or Exchange, to send a fax, you have to create a new message, attach documents.
The phone number is given as the destination recipient, with a special prefix
Example: FAX:555 555 555).
With LAUNCHER Office, you can send faxes like you send emails.
Use for example the command: LNCSNDMAIL.