Custom Fax Delivery Extension

Hello All:
We have setup Reporting Services. I want to integrate it with Fax server for
creating new subsciptions using custom delivery extension.
Apart from this custom extension, I am having one more solution for this
scenario and that is sending email (in the format <fax number>@.<fax server
name>) to the fax server as it is on SMTP.
I have not tested this scenario but from some search on net on this topic
brought out this solution. I am not sure whether sending email to the Fax
server (as it is on SMTP) will be right solution.
And if this is the solution then why do we need to write Custom fax Delivery
Extension? Any help or sample code or steps in this regards will be highly
appreciated
RohitIf you have an eamil address that works like a fax server, then you can make
a subscription to the report and email it... However there is no USER
Rendering agent for fax server, so a user can not run the report, then
export it to a fax server unless you write a custom extension..
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"Rohit Patil" <Rohit Patil@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:86A1792C-506D-4BBE-A06F-7DB888FE7036@.microsoft.com...
> Hello All:
> We have setup Reporting Services. I want to integrate it with Fax server
> for
> creating new subsciptions using custom delivery extension.
> Apart from this custom extension, I am having one more solution for this
> scenario and that is sending email (in the format <fax number>@.<fax server
> name>) to the fax server as it is on SMTP.
> I have not tested this scenario but from some search on net on this topic
> brought out this solution. I am not sure whether sending email to the Fax
> server (as it is on SMTP) will be right solution.
> And if this is the solution then why do we need to write Custom fax
> Delivery
> Extension? Any help or sample code or steps in this regards will be highly
> appreciated
> Rohit|||Hello Wayne,
Thanks for the reply. I have database of external users to whom the report
from reporting server is to be faxed. So depending upon the subscription made
report will be sent to different fax numbers. I am testing for the
functionality of fax server to send fax to different numbers, but I think I
have to write fax extension. If Ic an et some sample code for it then it will
be of real great help.
Rohit
"Wayne Snyder" wrote:
> If you have an eamil address that works like a fax server, then you can make
> a subscription to the report and email it... However there is no USER
> Rendering agent for fax server, so a user can not run the report, then
> export it to a fax server unless you write a custom extension..
> --
> Wayne Snyder, MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
> Mariner, Charlotte, NC
> www.mariner-usa.com
> (Please respond only to the newsgroups.)
> I support the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) and it's
> community of SQL Server professionals.
> www.sqlpass.org
> "Rohit Patil" <Rohit Patil@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:86A1792C-506D-4BBE-A06F-7DB888FE7036@.microsoft.com...
> > Hello All:
> > We have setup Reporting Services. I want to integrate it with Fax server
> > for
> > creating new subsciptions using custom delivery extension.
> >
> > Apart from this custom extension, I am having one more solution for this
> > scenario and that is sending email (in the format <fax number>@.<fax server
> > name>) to the fax server as it is on SMTP.
> >
> > I have not tested this scenario but from some search on net on this topic
> > brought out this solution. I am not sure whether sending email to the Fax
> > server (as it is on SMTP) will be right solution.
> >
> > And if this is the solution then why do we need to write Custom fax
> > Delivery
> > Extension? Any help or sample code or steps in this regards will be highly
> > appreciated
> >
> > Rohit
>
>