To anyone reading the above thread and trying to make sense of the "recipe",
the content between the quotes did not show up. The content for the name should be: a quote, a less than, TONAME:name, a greater than, a quote.
The content for the phone number should be:a quote, a less than, TOFAXNUM:faxnumber, a greater than, a quote.
>Bob-
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>Thanks for your help. This is working for me as of today.
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>You are correct. This is very straightforward - once you figure out what it means to "embed" in a VFP report form.
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>For others reading this thread - this is the recipe:
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>Put two text boxes on the form. I placed mine in the header and have not experimented with other placement. To test this - in one text box enter the following (including the quotes but insert your real values for mine):
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>"
" and in the other enter "".
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>You can, of course, replace these text box entries with variable names.
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>Set the printer to the correct driver ( one that does not bring up the RightFax interface - unless that is the behavior you want) and do the standard report form command.
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>Serves one.
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>Enjoy.
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>Note: use normal phone number conventions - internal systems may only require a 4 digit extension as the number - outside lines may require a prefix, etc.
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>>WOW,
>>lots of people seem to want to know about this... I am getting emails from all sorts of people about this connections
>>First step,
>>Read this document
>>http://www.1amsoftware.com/test/support.pdf
>>It gives you the basics on how to write into your VFP report, what embedded codes should have in them. Careful to read about the font issues,
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>>Then ,
>>go to www.rightfax.com/support/
>>and search their knowldge base for 0003718014
>>this will tell you how to create a non popup print driver which read your embedded codes.
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>>that being done, then just issue inside vfp
>>report form myreport to print
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>>Rightfax will read your report and embedded fax numbers and send it all off. nothing else you have to do.
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>>Bob Lee
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>>>Bob,
>>>I am writing a VFP app and need to fax through rightfax. I've read all the posts on this site about using rightfax and could still use a little help.
>>>
>>>You said that all you have to do is embed the faxto and faxnum in a VFP report and then print to the rightfax printer. Could you please tell me how to do this in a VFP report. Are they just labels on the report? As you can tell I'm fairly new to VFP.
>>>
>>>Thank you.
>>>
>>>Russ