Re: flexfax: How to retrieve DONEQ information back into my application

[Ulrich Eckhardt <Ulrich.Eckhardt@transcom.de>]

"JÜRGEN ANZER" wrote:
> 
> Hi gurus!
> 
> At first I want to mention that the HylaFAX software works great and
> I´ve managed to fax out of our application.
> 
> This application is based on Informix and I used the "output to file"
> command and then automatically send this file to sendfax with the
> destination number.
> 
> Now, here is my question:
> 
> Is there a way / what is the best way to make sure, that the fax has
> really been sent succesfully.
> 
> I know that HylaFAX mails the user if it can´t deliver the sent-job -
> unfortunately some of our users *never* look in their mailbox. Most of
> our user are not familiar with *nix at all and only work within their
> business application.
> 
> So I want to make sure, that their faxjobs have really been sent and
> that this is visible to them within their application in a form like
> "faxed/printed at 01/12/98" or something like that.
> 
> So - how do I retrieve this information out of HylaFAX?
> Searching through the doneq and sentq directories?
> Has anyone out there got some experience with this?
> 
> many thanks in advance,
> any help will be appreciated
> 
> juergen anzer

Hi,

probably you can parse the output of the faxstat command via Perl. 

There is a patch available on www.hylafax.org which adds some features
to
faxstat, which should make parsing easier (but haven't tested this
patch yet). Then you could put this informations in a database table via
the perl dbi interface (dbi is something similar to ODBC). 

You can write then a form (it looks that you use unify vision [i am 
acutally fighting with vision, but it seems that I win :-) ]) 
which shows this table, so a user has access to the fax server.

Uli  
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