Configuration of label printing and printing from the system

The document demonstrates the system’s capabilities in the area of label printing and design using built-in print customization mechanisms.

The system allows you to assign identifiers (barcodes, 2D, RFID identifiers) for a number of objects in the system. These facilities include: resources, employees, types of elements, locations, etc. This allows you to store information about a given object in the system and then use the identifier to quickly identify a given object using mobile devices, e.g. a telephone. If a given object (e.g. a device) has this identifier, reporting a service event will be much faster because you only need to scan the code instead of searching for the device on the list.

In the case of barcodes and 2D codes (QRCode, DataMatrix), the system allows the generation and printing of predefined label templates on a label printer. To do this, we use built-in functions that allow us to define additional parameters and data printed on these labels.

In objects that allow you to store identifiers, there are actions that allow you to print labels. They are available in the context menu in lists or in the details of a given object.

After activating this action, the quick print window is displayed. If we already have saved print configurations (described in later sections of this document), we can use this interface to quickly select a given configuration and generate labels. The Template selector and the Generate button are used for this purpose, which is activated when a saved label configuration template is selected.

Here we can also delete the existing label template configuration.

If there is no template or you want to create a new print configuration, select →" design". After selecting it, go to the template configuration designer.

In the designer, we can choose a predefined label template. They correspond to the most common label formats, whether printed on paper/plastic/PVC labels or specialized labels, e.g. PPQ cable labels. Using the selector, we select an available template or select 'Your own template', which allows you to upload a template designed in the label designer in the next section (see the note above and the 'How to' documentation). For our own label design, we need to determine how many elements a given label design has in one row. The system will then automatically provide subsequent label numbers in appropriate groups for printing.

In the next element, we can specify the number of copies of a given label or determine what parameter (in the case of resources) the print quantity will be taken from. This allows, for example, to make the number of labels dependent on the parameter of a given resource. In the case of cables, we can have a parameter that will store the number of required labels for the length of a given cable along with additional ones, e.g. This data comes from the design system and is imported into the AMAGE system. Then, through this mechanism, we can automatically print the appropriate number of labels, different for each resource.

Then we can define up to three predefined places to place additional texts. Depending on the label design (size), we can place up to three places on it for any text. Using these fields, we can configure the text that will appear in them. Using the (?) button you can display the available fields (depending on the object you intend to print). We can combine these fields and enter both the serial number and, for example, the inventory number of the resource in one line.

Additional options allow you to automatically add missing identifiers to given objects. This is used when, when printing a group of resources, some of them do not have identifiers assigned. To avoid the need to independently navigate to these resources and assign them identifiers, the system automatically tags such resources and generates labels with these new codes.

The user can immediately generate labels using the Generate button, but also save the template in the above configuration under any name. Marking a configuration as `private' will hide it from other users.

Example of generating labels for wiring elements:

There are articles/tutorials on labels on the Help Portal (in addition to the main user manual on this topic).

Photos - examples of cable labels and device labels printed using the printing method directly from the system. Some of them are labels for cables. Mainly PPQ+ from Partex.

A photo of various labels from which the system used identification (some are RFID codes, others are QR/Barcode codes, etc.)