Re: Barcode() in DDS

[nathan.quinones@xxxxxxxxxx]

I had to do the same thing, multiple fields of different lengths.  No fun,
but it got the job done.

Nathan Quinones
Custom Systems Corp
973-726-0202 x213
http://www.cussys.com


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It's been years......but

I wrote our bar code label programs to satisfy customer requirements and
a particular customer did not want 'blanks' (or padding) after the actual
string.

I found it frustrating because I could not use indicators in the DDS to
signal
which barcoded field to print (perhaps that was just me?) and wound up
parsing the string to determine length, move to appropriate field then
write
a record that was specific to the length of the barcode.  For this
particular
customer I wound up with 5 specs for printing (write records) to
accommodate
the variance in length.  The only difference between the records was the
length! Cut & paste programming at its best!

Perhaps someone has a better suggestion given the complexity of the
DDS for MAPICS output.

But first I would challenge the requirement!

Good luck!




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We're working on barcoding a few fields in our COM packing slip and are
wondering what's the best way to output (barcode) ONLY the contiguous
non-blank characters in the field.  For example, our customer item
number field may be 20 characters in length, but for a given customer we
may only need 8 characters and only want to barcode those 8 characters,
not the additional 12 spaces on the end.  Make sense?



Thanks,



Tom

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