Statement Route Types Control The Information Merged Onto Statements

Every statement references a statement route type. The route type controls the following statement print functions:

• It contains an algorithm that is responsible for extracting the information merged onto your statements. Specifically, algorithms of this type create the "flat file records" that are passed to your statement print software. Algorithms of this type are called under the following scenarios:
  • The background process that builds the flat file that's passed to your statement print software calls these algorithms to construct the "flat file records" for each statement.
  • If your statement print software has the ability to construct a real-time image of a statement (in a PDF), you can plug-in an Online Statement Image algorithm on the Installation Record. This type of algorithm will call the statement's dispatch group extract algorithm to extract the information that is merged onto the statement. Refer to Technical Implementation Of Online Statement Display for the details.
• Refer to The Statement Extract Records for examples of the record layouts passed to the document composition application.
• It contains the ID of the background process that builds the flat file that's passed to your statement print software. The base package example of this process (STMDWLD) simply calls each statement's construct's route type's extract algorithm to format the information placed onto the flat file.