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Management of Pre-Process and Post-Process operations
FFEXTERN [OMAFILE] [/Q=queuename] [/NS]
FFEXTERN controls and launches predefined 'external' pre-process and post-process operations on FS files and received faxes.
There are four types of external processing:
| Pre-Processing | FS files in the CALLBACK\PREPROC directory are processed. |
| Post-Processing | FS files in the CALLBACK\POSTPROC directory are processed. |
| Post-Receive Processing | MBX and MCF files are processed |
| Special Processing | Files are scanned in application-specified directories. |
The available standard processing 'plug-in' programs (DLLs) are described in the sub-topics of this section.
An OMA file may be specified (without a full path) on the command line and will cause FFEXTERN to write this file in the base CopiaFacts folder at least at every timer interval. This file must be explicitly named on the OMACHECK command line to monitor the operation of FFEXTERN.
For details of the /Q and /NS parameters, see FFEXTERN Conversion Priority.
FFEXTERN should be run with a login that has Administrator privileges. The FFEXTERN registry settings are held in HKLM\Software\Copia FFEXTERN; this key can be written and restored using REGEDIT to transfer FFEXTERN settings to another machine. The registry settings can be viewed using the SHOWXTREG program.
The FFEXTERN program runs continuously and normally shows a status display:
You can use this screen to enable and disable processes of different types, or to enable or disable all FFEXTERN operations. FFEXTERN can be run on multiple nodes, all operating on the same queues.
A blackout period can be set to allow for backup operations to take place. Setting the blackout minutes to -1 will cause the program to shut down at the blackout time and it must then be restarted by other means.
Note that when FFEXTERN runs the Document Converter pre-process, the default printer will be set to the FFCVRT printer driver. You will be warned on launching FFEXTERN if this printer does not exist, but to cater for users who use the program only for operations other than the Document Converter, this warning will only appear on the first two occasions that you start the program. You should check that any Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office applications use for Document Converter are also set up to use this printer, because in some cases they maintain their own default printer and ignore the system setting.
The left pane allows selection of a status display for each type of process, using the Status main item. The other four main items in the left pane allow setting up and editing parameters for each of the process types. Use the + icon to set up a new process, and select the process type (if more than one) that you wish to create.
The above is the setup screen for a new Document Converter process. Each process type has a separate setup screen.
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