Appendices; Appendix A: Editing The Esl Template Files; Editing The Information Template - Opticon ESL User Manual

9. Appendices

Appendix A: Editing the ESL Template Files

The ESL template files are XML-based and can be manually edited to design your own label
layout.
The ESL server application uses two templates.
An image template that specifies the actual image layout of the images that will be generated
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An information template that is used to generate XML-files that provide the ESL server
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application with all the necessary information about the linked ESL and product (Unique ID,
MAC address, and description)
A.1 Editing the Information Template
As mentioned above, the information template is used to provide the ESL server application
with all the required information for each ESL: the Unique ID; the MAC address; and a
description of the linked product.
Note: The "description" will be shown in the data tab of the ESL server application.
The default location of the information template is ./Templates/Info.xml.
This template consists of the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<EslImageInfo>
<Label></Label>
<ImageFile>%1%.bmp</ImageFile>
<X>0</X>
<Y>0</Y>
<Width></Width>
<Height></Height>
<HOffset>0</HOffset>
<VOffset>0</VOffset>
<Ix>0</Ix>
<Variant></Variant>
<Note>%3%</Note>
</EslImageInfo>
Only two fields of this template may have to be changed, depending on the field sequence of
your CSV database. The fields which may need to be corrected are:
<ImageFile>:
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<Note>:
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The field number is specified between the "%" symbols. Note that the first field in the sequence
is assigned field number "0."
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Needs to contain the field number of the Unique ID
Needs to contain the field number of the product description
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