Send multiple faxes

aasis

I was able to sund a fax using the code from https://apiforums.easylink.com/content/c-jobsubmit-fax-single

this code sends a single fax file per submission.

how can I send multiple files with one submission

please advise

Thanks

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skamens

Are you trying to send a single fax to multiple destinations, or multiple files to a single destination?

aasis

multiple files to a single destination

thanks

skamens

To add additional documents to your fax, you need to create additional documents and assign them a treatment of "attachment".

So it would look something like this:

            //// Existing Sample Code

            //// Setup Document 1 - PDF
            File = ReadAndEncodedFile("mypdf.pdf");
            DocData.format = Fax.EMsgAPI_JobSubmit201101.DocEncodingFormat.base64;
            DocData.Value = File;

            JS_Documents[0].Item = DocData;
            Fax.EMsgAPI_JobSubmit201101.EncodableStringType myFileName = new Fax.EMsgAPI_JobSubmit201101.EncodableStringType();
            myFileName.Value = "PDF_File.pdf";
            JS_Documents[0].Filename = myFileName;
            JS_Documents[0].DocType = "PDF";
            JS_Documents[0].ItemElementName = Fax.EMsgAPI_JobSubmit201101.ItemChoiceType.DocData;
            JS_Documents[0].@ref = "Doc1";
            DocData = null;

            //// New code for additional document

            //// Setup Document 2 - PDF
            File = ReadAndEncodedFile("mypdf2.pdf");
            DocData.format = Fax.EMsgAPI_JobSubmit201101.DocEncodingFormat.base64;
            DocData.Value = File;

            JS_Documents[1].Item = DocData;
            Fax.EMsgAPI_JobSubmit201101.EncodableStringType myFileName = new Fax.EMsgAPI_JobSubmit201101.EncodableStringType();
            myFileName.Value = "PDF_File2.pdf";
            JS_Documents[1].Filename = myFileName;
            JS_Documents[1].DocType = "PDF";
            JS_Documents[1].ItemElementName = Fax.EMsgAPI_JobSubmit201101.ItemChoiceType.DocData;
            JS_Documents[1].@ref = "Doc2";
            DocData = null;

            // Existing Sample code

            // Setup references to documents
            JS_Content[0].Item = "Doc1";
            JS_Content[0].Treatment = Fax.EMsgAPI_JobSubmit201101.TreatmentType.body;
            JS_Content[0].TreatmentSpecified = true;

       // new code for additional document

       // Setup references to documents
       JS_Content[0].Item = "Doc1";
       JS_Content[0].Treatment = Fax.EMsgAPI_JobSubmit201101.TreatmentType.attachment;
       JS_Content[0].TreatmentSpecified = true;

I'm not sure the above code will compile and work as is, but it should give you an idea of how to do it.

aasis

Thanks for your response , I did that and now I get in this line

jsResult = em.JobSubmit(jsRequest);

"The operation has timeout"

// Setup Documents
            var jsDocuments = new DocumentType[fax.FaxOutgoingFiles.Count];

            int count = 0;
            foreach (var faxFile in fax.FaxOutgoingFiles)
            {
                // Setup reusable variables for the document
                var docData = new DocDataType();
                jsDocuments[count] = new DocumentType();

                //// Setup Document 1 - PDF
                string file = ReadAndEncodedFile(faxFile.FileName);
                docData.format = DocEncodingFormat.base64;
                docData.Value = file;

                jsDocuments[count].Item = docData;
                var myFileName = new EncodableStringType
                {
                    Value = faxFile.FileName
                };
                jsDocuments[count].Filename = myFileName;
                jsDocuments[count].DocType = faxFile.FileName.EndsWith("pdf") ? Utilities.DocTypePdf : Utilities.DocTypeTiff;
                jsDocuments[count].ItemElementName = ItemChoiceType.DocData;
                jsDocuments[count].@ref = "Doc" + count;
                docData = null;

count = count + 1;
}

aasis

I even rollback the code to the one that was working and now I received "

Processing for JobSubmitRequest requests is temporarily blocked

skamens

The "Processing is blocked" message is unrelated to your software - it indicates a possible issue with the system.

Are you submitting to the test system (test2messaging.easylink.com) or production (messaging.easylink.com)?

Also, if you can provide the user ID or email address you are using to authenticate, we might be able to find your requests to see why they timed out.

aasis

I was able to submit after several testing , I even received a job id but I did not receive the faxes i sent

please advise

Thanks

aasis

jobid = test2:2914397

skamens

Thanks for providing your JobId - that allowed me to easily find your information.

The job did not process because it is missing a document with a treatment of "body" - each job must have at least one "body" document. In this case, the only document that was included has a treatment of "attachment".

If you want to include multiple documents as noted above, the first one must have a Treatment of "body", and all others should have a Treatment of "attachment".

Another approach is to always include an empty document as the "body" (give it a DocType of "empty"), and then all of your regular documents can be "attachment"s.

aasis

then should I include this code inside the loop?

var jsContent = new ContentPartType[1];

jsContent[0] = new ContentPartType

{

Item = "Doc1",

Treatment = TreatmentType.attachment,

TreatmentSpecified = true

};

aasis

I was able to send a fax with multiple files successfully!!