Working with Print Label Process

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Working with Print Label Process

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Process Purpose

 

The "Print Label" process is used to print a label, specifically the label profile you created in the "Labels" module.

 

 

When you add a process, you are required to define its settings. This occurs in the process's properties window which is displayed automatically after having added the "Print File" process. This properties window is divided into two tabs - "General" and "Error".

If any subsequent edition is required, double-click the process to open its properties window and enter the necessary modifications.

 

"General" tab

 

 

Fill in the available options:

 

Print Label

Label

Select the label profile you want printed from the drop-down OR  click to open a "Labels List" window which displays all the project's label profiles.

See Detail of the "Labels List" window.

Printer

Select the appropriate printer profile from the drop down (which includes the default printer profiles and the ones you have already created). If required, click to add another Aux profile or select the one you want to edit. See To Create an Aux Profile and/or To Edit an Aux Profile.

 

Remember NOT to select a Serial Port Aux profile if your target device is an Android device. Serial Port type profiles are not supported if used in Android devices.

Map Field with Data table

Type column

Refers the field value's string type. This information is retrieved from the label profile and it is NOT editable.

Field ID column

Refers the field ID you have set to replace the original field data in the label profile (see Label Profile). If there was NO Field ID replacement, it will be empty. This column is NOT editable.

Original Field Value column

Displays the original values of the label file that was used to create the label profile. This information is retrieved from the label profile and it is NOT editable.

Replace by... column

If required, you can replace each original field data with another value (a fixed value or a variable). Either enter it in the corresponding field(s) OR  click and select a variable with the intended value. See Variable Usage.

 

Click Here for Details on the "Labels List" window

 

 

This window displays all the label profiles available for the current project.

It is accessed when you click (a button located in the "Print Label's" properties window.

Use the buttons to the right of the table to perform the following:

 

Use this button to add a new label profile. See Adding a Label Profile.

Use this button to edit an existing label profile. See Editing a Label Profile.

Use this button to delete an existing label profile. See Deleting a Label Profile.

Use this button to make a copy of an existing label profile. See Copying a Label Profile.

 

 

Go to the "Error" tab.

 

"Error" tab

 

 

Select/check the appropriate options:

 

If Communication Error

Go to

Select a target location from the drop-down or the list, in case there is a communications error. See Detail of a window below.

 

When defining a screen as a target destination (ex: via a “Go to” process), you CANNOT use variables to specify the name of that target screen. You must select the intended screen from the available drop-down/list.

 

Detail of a window:

 

 

"S:Menu" is a screen included in the same program as the process.

"R:Routine_1" is a routine included in the same program as the process.

 

 

Use the following icons (located on the upper right corner of the properties window) to execute specific operations:

 

•Click to define a time out for the label printing operation. See To Define a Time Out for a Print/Aux Process.

 

•Click to print a preview of the selected label profile.

 

When selecting a printer, make sure that it is compatible, meaning, it must be able to read ZPL or DPL according to the language used in the label being printed.

 

 

•Click to attach any relevant notes to this process. Click it and enter your notes in the resulting text box. These notes will be displayed in the corresponding "Actions" tab or "Process" window (in the "Notes" field) and in the "Developer Report".

 

 

After filling in the required options, click to conclude or to abort the operation.

The added process is displayed in the corresponding "Actions" tab or "Process" window.

 

 

If you want to use a label as a target destination, you can use the "Auto-Label" mechanism. This alternative to the "Set Label" process allows you to create a label in the properties window of a process - specifically, in the fields used to define target destinations (ex: the "If Error..." type fields). See To Automatically Create a Label.

 

Use the right-click in MCL-Designer's input boxes to access some related options as well as the general "Cut", "Copy"; "Paste"; "Search" actions (active/inactive according to the current context).

Ex: If you right-click the "Variable" input box (included in a "Conversion's" properties window), you are provided with general editing/search actions and other more specific options such as "Variable Select" (see "Variable Select"); "Variable Insert" (see "Variable Insert"); "Insert Special Character" (see To Insert Special Characters into a Control's Text Input Field) and "Localization Select" (see Localization List).

If you right-click another input box, it may provide other possibilities.