Technical information

USING VFX TAGS
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Tag Description
tvn
To voice number
udf
User defaults
Issue the following command in the command shell to obtain the compelete list of valid envelope tags:
vfx -help tags
Tag files
Tag files are ASCII text files that contain one vfx tag per line. For example, you could fax the same message as the
previous example by saving this information to tag file hello.tag:
tfn=555-1212
fll=hello.txt
To send the fax, you would pass the tag file to the fax server using the -t tgf=<tag_file> option as follows:
vfx -t tgf=hello.tag
You could easily add a few more tags to include a "classic" cover page (cvr tag) with a subject line (sub tag),
recipient name (tnm tag) and recipient company name (tco tag). That tag file would look like this:
cvr=classic
sub=Sample Hello World Fax
fll=hello.txt
tfn=555-1212
tnm=Billy Bear
tco=Wild Mountain Resorts
Tag files are especially useful for situations where your existing business application can write output to a file but
cannot issue external commands. However, you must write the script that passes the tag file to the fax server. This is
typically done using vfx commands, placing the file in the autosend directory or emailing the file to the fax server.
Tag files with multiple files or recipients
When a tag file defines more than one file to be included with the fax (e.g., using multiple fll tags) or defines more
than one recipient (e.g, using multiple tfn tags), the tag file must be constructed in a particular order, or that fax will
not be sent as intended.
Important
Tag files have one important limitation: they cannot send different faxes to different recipients. You can send the
same fax to more than one recipient (i.e., send a group fax) but the faxes will be identical. If you need to send
different faxes to different recipients, consider using a batch file.
See also
See Advanced Group Faxing
for additional information.
Each recipient block must start with a tfn tag. All subsequent information (e.g., name, company name, etc.)
is assumed to be for that recipient until the next tfn tag is encountered.
Each file inclusion block must start with one of the following tags:
Tag Description
fdl
Local folder
fds
Server folder