Setting the Quantity Of Labels To Print From a Field On the Label

Description

Using the **QUANTITY field to set the number of labels to print.

Solution

The Loftware Design program features the *Quantity reserved field name. The ***QUANTITY field is an extremely flexible way of specifying the number of labels to print, in that its value can be pulled from any of the standard Loftware variable field data sources, such as a formula or database. The following example demonstrates how to use a **QUANTITY field to make a simple box labe.
This example shows you how to make a box label that indicates the total number of boxes in a set, as well as an individual number for each box: I.E. "1 of 3", "2 of 3", "3 of 3".

1. Place 2 variable fields on a your label and set the "Max # of Chars" for each to 3, and "Padding" to Leading Zeros.
2. Place a fixed field with text "of" between the two fields.
3. Set the name for the right-hand variable field to **QUANTITY
4. Double click the left-hand variable field and set its Data Source Where data is extracted to produce labels. Loftware Label Manager provides a variety of data sources, including the keyboard, a database, serial number, a formula, via the UCC or UPN Wizard. For RFID labels and tags, data can come from the Keyboard data source or by configuring data blocks using the Block Configuration data source. to Incr/Decr. Set "By Value" to 1 and set the "Clear Value" to 1.
5. Save the label, then re-open it in On-Demand Print.

6. Enter the number of labels you want to print, then click the print button in the box labeled **QUANTITY.