Document Distribution

Summary

This enhancement to Document Distribution adds support for integrating RIS with web-based fax solutions other than Microsoft Fax through the use of a new RIS Faxing Plugin Framework.

Feature Description

Previously, RIS only supported faxing via the Windows Fax service as the middle layer. This solution has been problematic and required management of physical fax lines.

With this change, a plugin framework for faxing solutions has been implemented using Microsoft’s Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), similar to other RIS plugins such as the RIS-PACS integrations and Wedge plugins.

This framework allows plugins to be created for different fax solutions and allows configuration of those solutions via settings in the applicationsettings.config file.

With this release, RIS will continue to use Windows Faxing by default. Future enhancements will add support for other fax solutions via a configuration change.

Configuration Instructions

No System Administrator actions are necessary to enable this feature.

ApplicationSettings.config Settings

·       A new DDEFaxPlugin setting has been introduced with a default value of DDEnginePluginWin32, which will utilize the current RISFaxLib.dll.

<setting name="DDEFaxPlugin" serializeAs="String">

    <value>DDEnginePluginWin32</value>