Maintaining User-Defined Labels

Use subroutines to produce the special labels printed for your company's applications.

For each application area, you need to identify the associated label and document subroutines. Once defined, you can print the defined labels from the application areas. The following table shows each application area and how to display the labels defined for that application:

To display label options for...

Use the...

Shipping labels in SOE

Label hot key on the SOE Body screen.

Receiving labels in POE

Label hot key on the POE Body screen.

Transfer labels in TOE

Label hot key on the TOE Body screen.

Product labels in Product Label Printing

F10 key in the Label Format field on the Product Label Printing screen.

Customer/Vendor Specific Part Number labels

Print Label hot key on the Customer/Vendor Specific Part Numbers screen.

Use the User Defined [application name] Label Format Maintenance screen to define the label subroutines associated with each application. The title of the screen varies for each application, but the fields and hot keys are the same.

To maintain user-defined labels:

  1. Display the User-Defined Documents menu in one of the following ways:

  1. From this menu, select one of the following applications to display the label format maintenance screen:

Note: You must be assigned the SYSTEM.PROGRAMMING authorization key to use these label format maintenance programs.

  1. In the Label Format Title field, enter an identifying name for the label format.

  2. In the Subroutine Name field, enter OIDIMAGING.OUT, the subroutine that prints the label document.

  1. In the Typ field, enter one of the following subroutine types:

The writer of the subroutine can tell you which type to assign.

  1. In the Form field, press F10 and select the form on which the designated label prints, such as LABEL.

Note: The system determines which printer has this form loaded. Forms are defined on the Forms Definition screen.

  1. Press Esc to save the information and exit the screen.

Note: Do not use the DDE Subroutine hot key. This key is for internal use by Eclipse personnel only.

See Also:

User-Defined Functions Overview

Printer Forms Overview