How can I create my own contact database for fax address pick up?
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Last Modified Date: 07/11/2007
One of the strength of ExtraFax is that it allows you to plug your own contact databases which can be
used for address book lookup for the print-to-fax driver. In order to achieve this result, you need to do the
following :
- You have to add your contact database(s) to the NAMES= list in NOTES.INI
- If you change the server NOTES.INI, it will be accessible by all users, if you change the workstation one, only user on that workstation will be able to see it.
- Create a view called "($PeopleGroupsFlat)" in the contact database(s).
The column definition for this view must observe the following rules :
| Column | Content |
| 1 | The icon which indicate whether this entry is a person entry or a group entry. This is not used by the print-to-fax driver. You can put anything you like. |
| 2 | This displayed name. |
| 3 | The email address. This is the entry that would be picked up to put in the To/Cc/Bcc fields. For fax, it should be of the form
receiver@fax-number@faxdomain. You can skip the domain and the print-to-fax driver will append a default one. However, Notes default address book lookup will not do this. So you have to decide if you want to put the domain in. |
| 4 | The name of this entry. If the email address field is empty, this one would be used instead as the email address. However, we would recommend use the email column. |
| 5 | Type. This is important. It must be either 'Person' or 'Group'. The print-to-fax driver use this to determine if it should display it under the group list or the person list |
| 6 | Public key. this column is not used. |
| 7 | 'fax mail' address.
For people customizing the standard NAB, you can add the following formula in the column formula definition:
@If(@Trim(OfficeFAXPhoneNumber) != ""; OfficeFAXPhoneNumber; HomeFAXPhoneNumber)
In this way, it will pick up either the Office fax number or Home fax number from the Person document.
The title must be 'FaxAddr'. |
To summerize, column 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 are mandatory and it must contain valid contents.