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Headers and footers on every page of a fax

Cover Sheet Editor allows you also to add header and footer to fax pages.

There was only one coversheet per fax in previous versions of FaxChange. So your fax may look like this: 
CCCCCC  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
CCCCCC  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
MMMMMM  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
MMMMMM  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
MMMMMM  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
page 1  page 2  page 3

where "CCCCC" is coversheet, "MMMMM" is message text and "AAAAA" is attachment (or attachments). Or, if your message was longer than [size of page] - [size of coversheet], it may look like this: 

CCCCCC  MMMMMM  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
CCCCCC  MMMMMM  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
        MMMMMM  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
        MMMMMM  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
                AAAAAA  AAAAAA
page 1  page 2  page 3  page 4

There is comming new feature with FaxChange 4.0 SP3: you may create a custom "headers" and "footers" for every page using a coversheet editor. Now, your fax can look like this: 

CCCCCC  --NH--  --NH--
MMMMMM  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
MMMMMM  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
--FF--  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
        --NF--  --NF--
page 1  page 2  page 3

(later referred as "format 1") or, if your message is longer than [size of page] - [size of coversheet], it can look like this:

CCCCCC  --NH--  --NH--  --NH--
CCCCCC  MMMMMM  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
        MMMMMM  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
        MMMMMM  AAAAAA  AAAAAA
        --NF--  --NF--  --NF--
page 1  page 2  page 3  page 4

(later referred as "format 2") where "FF" is first page footer, "NH" is next pages header and "NF" is next pages footer.

How to use it?

At first, you have to switch that function on. Run REGEDIT and set value newcovers in key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Datasys\global\server to "1". Then restart FaxChange.Server service.

Now, you can create a new coversheets. Headers and footers are stored in the same directory as coversheets and use the same base filename. If your coversheet is named "company.cvs", you have to create following files:

If you create only some of them, it will be used alone. For example, if you create file <mycovername>.cvs.NextHeader.cvs only, all pages from page 2 will have custom header, but no footer will appear on first page nor next pages.

We recommend that footers and headers whould be small -- it protract page, so some older fax machines can strip it off...

If you want to set footer to the bottom of the page, you have to set in registry page lenght and then the footer will be in the defined bottom

global.server.UseLongPages = "1" - enables setting of page lenght

global.server.LongPageLength = "2200" - default value equls to A4 page lenght

Custom headers and footers will not be used, if the user specify "no coversheet" in send options.

There is a list of all of combinations of page length, coversheets and so on -- so you can see when and how the custom coversheets will be used:

    To one recipient Faxmailing (many recipients)
Short message text Coversheet used Format 1 Format 2
Long message text Coversheet used Format 2 Format 2
Short message text "No coversheet" selected Headers and footers are not used
Long message text "No coversheet" selected Headers and footers are not used

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