Example 5: Publishing a report to fax

In this example, you will learn how to set up a task to publish the report result to fax. Before you can fax the report result, you must first have your modem configured. Otherwise a warning message will be displayed when you try to export to fax.

1. Take steps 1 and 2 as in Example 1.
2. In the Publish tab of the Schedule dialog, click the To Fax sub tab, check the Publish to Fax option and then fill in every field and set the settings according to your requirements.
3. In the Conditions tab, select the Time sub tab, define the time zone from the Time Zone drop-down list, then from the Time Type drop-down list, choose Run this task immediately.
4. If you want to notify someone of when the task is finished by sending an e-mail, go to the Notification tab and set the settings.
5. If you want to specify a timeout for the task, specify the settings in the Duration tab as required.
6. Click Finish to have the task performed.

Then, click My Tasks on the system toolbar. When the task is being performed, you can see a record of it in the Running tab and on completion it will be put into the Completed tab.