C H A P T E R 7

Routing and Communications

Figure 7-9Changing the sender’s name or location

Names from

Owner Info

Worksites from

Owner Info

Choose a city from Time Zones

The Sender picker lists the owner names and worksites that have been entered in the built-in Owner Info application. The last item in the Sender picker, Other City, brings up a picker from which a user can choose another city. Choosing another city for the sender in a routing slip automatically makes that city the home city in the Time Zones application.

If a user chooses a different owner, worksite, or city, the system updates the routing information as needed. For example, in a Fax routing slip the system prefixes the destination fax number with a 1 and the area code only if a user chooses a worksite or city with a different area code. The system doesn’t add a 1 or the area code if the sender’s worksite has the same area code as the destination.

The default owner name (or persona, as it is sometimes called) shown by this picker is the one corresponding to the last-used owner name for a routing operation. The default worksite for the owner is the one corresponding to the last worksite used for a routing operation (including a canceled routing operation) or the setting of the home location in the Time Zones application, whichever was done last. Note that users can create additional owner names and worksites in the Owner Info application, and they can add cities to the Time Zones application.

Some transports need the sender’s return address as well as the sender’s name. The transport extracts any return address information it needs, such as the sender’s fax number or e-mail address, from the sender’s card in the Owner Info application.

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2 specifications

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