Print different label based on scanner

nicolas moreau

• March 14, 2022 06:38

Hello

I need to print different label jobs based on user input. Is this scenario possible ?

Scan code into text field 

lookup database to extract label (job) name that needs printing 

print that label (job)

The goal is to avoid users having to manually select which labels to print, and instead just scan a code on the paper work they have in hand. 

Thanks

 

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  Peter Thane

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • March 14, 2022 09:27

  There are a couple of ways you could achieve this (this assumes all the labels are the same size and it is just the layout that is different:

  - create a "front end" program that scan the operators scan into which performs the database lookup and then opens and populates the appropriate label in BarTender (#)

  - create multiple templates or layers in the same label and enable conditional printing with only the required label printing based on your conditional logic

  - design a label that instead of printing runs an Action. The user scans into the base label which reads from the database. This data, including the the label format name is then passed the the Action to process with this opening the label and printing it in the backgroud (#)

   

  # With both these you could instead output the data in a CSV file for example and use a deployed integration to rigger off this file with the label name to use configured as a variable in the integration so that it open that label and then populates with the other data

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  nicolas moreau

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • March 14, 2022 21:18

  This is great, thank you.

  I'll try option 3 first, where do I find the "Action" , I can't seem to find a place where I can link a "text box" to a VBScript , or is this in the Script for the Whole form ?

  All I can find is "OnGetFields" and "OnFillList"

   

  Thanks

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