Sending a Fax Without Attaching a Document

A fax does not always need an attached document. When everything the recipient needs to read fits on the cover page, the cover page alone is enough to send. This is useful for short requests, asking a specialist's office for records, confirming a referral, or sending a note that would otherwise be a one-line attachment.

Sending Fax Without Document

From Messaging, select New fax and fill in:

The recipient's Fax number
The Patient, when the fax relates to one
A Title, and the message itself in Description

Leave the attachments area empty and select Send.

When a fax can be sent without an attachment

The Send button becomes available once the fax carries something to deliver:

With one or more attachments, it is always available
With no attachments, the cover page must be on, and its Description must have content
With no attachments and an empty cover page, there is nothing to send

In other words, either an attachment or a written cover page will do.

The cover page description

On a cover-only fax, the Description becomes the body of the page; it is what the recipient reads:

It holds up to 5,000 characters
Typing "/" inserts a snippet
Typing "$" inserts a variable
Signature is optional

Writing the full message here keeps the fax self-contained, with nothing for the recipient to open.