Technical Implementation Of Online Quote Display

Users can view an image of any quote if you set up the following:

• Plug in an Online Quote Display construction algorithm on the Installation Record. Refer to ONQD-DOC1 for an example of such an algorithm. Note if your quote-print software is not capable of producing a PDF containing an image of a quote, users will not be able to view images of quotes.
• Plug in the appropriate extract algorithm on each quote route type . Algorithms of this type format the records that contain the information that is passed to your printing software. Refer to QTEX-EX for an example of such an algorithm.

When you plug in these algorithms, a button appears on Quote - Main. When a user clicks this button, the following takes place:

• The installation record's Online Quote Display algorithm is executed.
• This algorithm calls the quote's route type's extract algorithm. This algorithm constructs the information that's merged onto the quote and returns it to the Online Quote Display algorithm. This algorithm, in turn, passes it to the quote-print software.
• The quote-print software renders an image of the quote in a PDF and returns it to the Online Quote Display algorithm.
• And finally, the Online Quote Display algorithm displays the PDF in a browser session. Note that the client must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to view PDF files.