automating processes

© 2012 Entrinsik, Inc.

Automating ProcessesLet Informer do the heavy lifting…

PRESENTER: Tim Nicholson| Title & Organization| Date


Automating Processes

• Using TCL/ECL• Using the Scheduler


TCL/ECL

• U2 only• Executes database commands– Query statements– Paragraphs– BASIC programs– OS Scripts

• Matt Rees, Entrinsik


Automating Letter Generation

• Past due notices• Previously required user interaction• Eliminated the need for user interaction • Automatically generated based on the schedule


Compound Condition using the “At least one of…” as a condition selector


In the first section of the compound condition, we entered a TCL command to remove all entries from the previous run


In the second section, we entered another Compound Condition, this time using the “All of…” as a condition selector.


This is the criteria used to obtain our list of overdue clients.


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.


Results are returned back to Informer for final reporting.


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


Next Phase

• Automatically email letters• Eliminate human intervention• Free up valuable internal resources.


Scheduler

• Run reports off-line• Email results• Export results– File– Savelist (U2 only)

• Susan Fenn, Wake Tech


Thank you! Any questions?

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