To learn more about triggers in general, see section Understanding Triggers.

Read more about Loftware Label Cloud here.

Cloud trigger allows you to integrate your Loftware Cloud or on-premise Control Center with existing business systems that run in private clouds or in dedicated data centers. If an existing business system (e.g., SAP S/4HANA or Oracle NetSuite) produces an output, a cloud-hosted API enables you to send HTTP requests to the cloud trigger.

The cloud trigger allows you to locally print labels whose content originates from the cloud information systems. Because the cloud trigger that runs on the local Automation server uses standard methods for accessing the cloud-based services, you can deploy local printing in a secure and time efficient way.

The cloud trigger enables a secure and transparent way to integrate your local label printing using applications that communicate over the open Internet.

Compared to the HTTP server trigger, the cloud trigger does not require you to open any inbound ports on your firewall. The cloud trigger uses a dedicated Loftware API that runs in the cloud. This is why the trigger only requires open outbound port 443, or ports 9350-9354. In most cases, these ports are already open.

When deploying the cloud trigger, you have two options:

Both options are equal in terms of offered functionalities. Chose your preferred option based on your available infrastructure.