printing item labels

[johnhugh]

Hi,
I'm using Accpac 5.5 and am wondering whether I can somehow print item labels when I do a receipt. So basically, after it prints the receipt it should print the labels for the items receipted.

The item label report in IC is rather cumbersome. I first need to enter the number of labels and then print it from I/C.
Can this not be done easier?

 

[ettienne]

On the receipt it asks if you want item labels, if you say yes then the correct number of labels are generated.

 

[johnhugh]

Yes, thats the cumbersome part.
On every detail line of the receipt I have to enter the number of labels I want and then go into IC to print it.

Wouldn't it be easier to have an option that just prints as many labels as items were receipted?
And it could also ask you straight after printing the receipt whether you want to print item labels....

 

[ettienne]

Go to

https://www11.v1ideas.com/SageERPAccpac/Accpac

and add a suggestion.

 

[johnhugh]

already there. good to know it's not only me.
thanks anyway

https://www11.v1ideas.com/SageERPAccpac/Accpac/Idea/Detail/1884

 

[ettienne]

Nothing I or anyone else can do about it, the only way to get a program change is by logging a request with Accpac.
You could write a macro to automate the process.

 

[DjangMan]

There's not much description but I just installed it at a site where they enter a receipt number and get one label per item per quantity sold. The labels can be edited as required and can follow different rules for how many labels to create, bar codes, etc.

http://www.silentdsoftware.com/html/sa_erp_labels.html

 

[johnhugh]

Thanks DjangMan. But looks like I need a report editor called FastReport for that.

Ettienne - What do you mean by writing a macro to automate the process?
I know I could write a macro which shows a form and the user can select the RCP# and it prints labels from there.
But how would I automate that?
Can I trigger a macro to run after I printed a receipt automatically?

 

[DjangMan]

The FastReport editor is built in.

When you write a macro to automate a screen you create a new VBA macro or VB program. Then you can take the receipt screen, which is an ActiveX object, and drop it on to your form. At that point you can run the macro/program and use the receipt screen pretty much as normal. Then you can hook into the events of the screen's controls and underlying data sources so you can change the behaviour of the screen either before the user does something, why they are doing something or after they have done something. So, for example, you could automate the update of the field that Ettienne was referring to.

 

[johnhugh]

Thanks for the explanation DjangMan.