Accessing Web Designer and creating new labels

After you successfully connect your printers to Control Center, you can create your first label in Web Designer.

Note

If you use Cloud Business, Cloud Compliance, or Cloud Enterprise, enable permissions for creating and editing labels in Access Roles.

In Control Center go to Users > Access Roles and click a user you want to give permissions for creating and editing labels.
In the Permissions for this role pane > General tab, enable LoftwareDesigner > Run program and LoftwareDesigner > Edit documents.
In the Permissions for this role pane > Documents tab, enable Storage > Read files and folders and Create new files and folders.

Creating a new label from Dashboard in Control Center

To create a new label from Dashboard:

Go to Dashboard, and click Create new label.

Select your printer from the drop-down menu. Click Create.

Warning

Can't see your printers?

See the topic I can't see my printers in Control Center.

For Cloud Designer: For a step-by-step guide on connecting and reserving your printers in Control Center, follow the onboarding tutorials on Dashboard in your Control Center.

Note

You can also choose Microsoft Print to PDF, but this action counts as printing and will take up one of your printer seats.

To learn more about how printer-seat-based licensing works, see the Loftware Licensing and Counting licensed printers topics in our user guides.About Loftware licensing

Web Designer opens in your current tab with a blank design surface.

The label created from Dashboard is saved in Documents > Labels folder. If the folder doesn't exist, Control Center creates the folder.

You can now start designing your label.

When you are online, Web Designer saves your files automatically.

Creating a new label from Documents in Control Center

	Note
	If you want to create new folders in Cloud Business, Cloud Compliance, or Cloud Enterprise, enable permissions in Access Roles. In Control Center go to Users > Access Roles and click a user you want to give permissions for creating new folders. In the Permissions for this role pane > Documents tab, enable Storage > Create new files and folders.

To create a new label from Documents:

Go to Documents.

Create a new folder or select a folder to store your new label.

Right-click the empty space below files in the central pane to open a drop-down menu, then select Create Label.

	Note
	The drop-down menu won't open if you are in the Root folder or have a file in preview.

You can also create a new label by clicking the New button and selecting New Label from the drop-down menu.

A drop-down menu with your printers opens. Select your printer and click Create.

Web Designer opens in your current tab with a blank design surface.

You can now start designing your label.

When you are online, Web Designer saves your files automatically.

Note

Empty labels won't save to Documents.

To create and save an empty label, you can use this workaround:

Open a new label and put any object on the design surface. Your label automatically saves to Documents.
Delete the object from your label design.

Your label design is now empty and saved in Documents.

Renaming label files in Web Designer

To rename label file name:

Click on the label name at the center of the top of your screen.

Edit the field and press Enter.

To manage your new label file (copy, paste, move, delete ...), return to Documents page in Control Center.

Note

To learn more about the Documents page in Control Center, see:

For Cloud Designer: Managing files and folders in Documents

For Cloud Essentials, Cloud Business: Managing Files and Folders in Documents

Web Designer automatically saves your label file.

To return to Control Center, click Back in the top left corner.