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Automating ProcessesLet Informer do the heavy lifting…
PRESENTER: Tim Nicholson| Title & Organization| Date
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Automating Processes
• Using TCL/ECL• Using the Scheduler
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TCL/ECL
• U2 only• Executes database commands– Query statements– Paragraphs– BASIC programs– OS Scripts
• Matt Rees, Entrinsik
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Automating Letter Generation
• Past due notices• Previously required user interaction• Eliminated the need for user interaction • Automatically generated based on the schedule
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Compound Condition using the “At least one of…” as a condition selector
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In the first section of the compound condition, we entered a TCL command to remove all entries from the previous run
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In the second section, we entered another Compound Condition, this time using the “All of…” as a condition selector.
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This is the criteria used to obtain our list of overdue clients.
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Execute a series of TCL commands.
The third statement takes the records selected by Informer and sends them to SEMtek process LETTER.PRINT.AUTO using the STATEMENT parameter.
Here our letters are generated.
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Results are returned back to Informer for final reporting.
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Results• The Informer report shows the clients
which had a statement generated.• The actual statement was generated from
within SEMtek • We plan to offer this feature to our SEMtek
clients in the near future. We also have ideas that can simplify this even more.
* Actual figures used come from test database
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Next Phase
• Automatically email letters• Eliminate human intervention• Free up valuable internal resources.
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Scheduler
• Run reports off-line• Email results• Export results– File– Savelist (U2 only)
• Susan Fenn, Wake Tech
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Thank you! Any questions?