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Spool Robot allows to perform automatically a set of actions
every time a report
is created the AS/400.
There are two versions of Spool Robot:
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Standard, which is enclosed in Spool Painter.
It can intercept the AS/400 report when it is created,
and it can run a rule of Spool
Painter to obtain a graphical report of any printer of
the network.
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Extended, subject to the licence.
It can intercept the AS/400 report when it is created,
and it can run a rule of Spool
Painter to obtain:
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PDF, RTF or HTML files from Spool Painter's rule.
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Word, Html, Txt file, etc. by coping the report
without applying particular.
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Structured files (Excel, Access, dBII, dBIII, etc.)
from Spool Office rule.
This version of Spool Robot can run further rules (Robot
Rules) which allows
extracting data from the report before running the actions
you set, to obtain:
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The spool segmentation
This action has the aim to extract from the spool
all the pages relevant to
a block, and run the actions expected in the single
block.
Ex: If a spool contains 70 pages related to 30 invoices
of 18 different
customers, it is possible to set a segmentation rule
that divides the spool in 30
blocks (one for each invoice) or in 18 blocks (one
for each customer).
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Extraction of fields from the single segment
From every segment of the report (or from the report
as a whole) it is
to extract the content of determined position of the
report to:
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Give a name to the file
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Detect the Fax number and E-mail, directly
from the report or from
a specially provided address book through the
printed data (ex: Company
name + Forwarding address)
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Compose the subject and the text for Fax
and E-mail, by linking
constants and data present in the report.
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The document storing
The graphical documents created in PDF format can
be stored in a folder,
to be consulted by the network users.
In the same way you can store the EXCEL or WORD files
created by
Spool Office.
Spool Robot
is a PC application that after being activated
performs the following function:
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Searches for the AS/400 controlled report, at regular
intervals
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Segments the reports as we described previously
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Reproduces the graphical version of the report under
its control or creates (Spool
Office or Spool Painter)
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Sends Fax and E-mail
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Holds, deletes or moves to another queue the original
reports according to what
you set in the operation parameters of the report itself.
The time of the robot's intervention, which marks every
how many seconds the action
of searching and printing must begin, is set in the robot's
definition parameters.
For each report to treat it is necessary first of all to
execute the steps of the project, the
test of test and, at the end when every thing is correct,
you have to connect the report
with the robot to reproduce it automatically.
You can set one or more robots, according to your needs.
For example you can set a robot to process the reports as
invoices or bills which are
generally short and frequent, and another one for longer
reports which can be delayed
without problem.
Every AS/400 report you have to manage must be linked with
a robot that intercepts its
output. For this purpose the AS/400 reports must reside
in a queue without printers to
avoid them to be printed before being intercepted.
Those printer queues can be linked with a data queue that
receives a signalling every
time a new report is ready to be printed in the queue.
The robot can search for the new reports through the test
of this dada queue to detect
directly (and with very few resources of the system) if
there are new reports to process.
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