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lizzappilizzappi 

HOW TO merge and print labels (Barcodes) from desired records

Hello we are a non profit 501c3 using salesforce
 
We use salesforce also to track text books and recipients.
We generate a profile for each textbook and a profile for each recipient.
We check-out text books to recipients.
 
Barcode Zone generates barcodes for each record (textbooks and recipients).
I would like the ability to merge and print all the labels (Barcodes) so we place the labels on the books.
 
This will add the functionality to scan books in or out of a recipient profile.
 
Currently Barcode Zone was able to add a print label button that print one label.
<apex:page standardController="Book_Bank_Inventory__c" renderAs="pdf">
  <BarcodeZone:ACBarcodeZone Value="{!Book_Bank_Inventory__c.Name}"
  BrcdType="{!Book_Bank_Inventory__c.Barcode_Type__c}"
  rendered="true"
  />  
</apex:page> 
 
Alternatively on the visual page code we could manually add multiple values.
  <apex:page standardController="Book_Bank_Inventory__c" renderAs="pdf">
  <BarcodeZone:ACBarcodeZone Value="{!'99199-082012-P2-12'}"
  BrcdType="{!'code128'}"
  rendered="true" /> 
  <BarcodeZone:ACBarcodeZone Value="{!'99199-082012-P2-12'}"
  BrcdType="{!'code128'}"
  rendered="true" /> 
  <BarcodeZone:ACBarcodeZone Value="{!'99199-082012-P2-12'}"
  BrcdType="{!'code128'}"
We will have 2800 textbooks and the above solutions will not work.
 
Will you be able to help?
 
THANK YOU                
colemabcolemab

Hello,

 

First off, I also work at a non profit 501 C3 and we use saleforce too.

 

I am not sure if it will help or not but if your bar codes are stored / generated as apex pages rendered in PDF, you may want to look at this tool that I wrote as it allows for batch downloading of apex pages to PDF as well as batch attahcment downloading and combining.

 

You could theoritically use this to generate one bar code / pdf page per record and then combine those into one PDF for easy printing.

 

Let me know if you need some help with the settings or if this isn't what you are looking for, and I can probably help you.
Aureole HaloAureole Halo
The prevail methods of converting desired text records to barcode labels is to use the barcode fonts, which works like the common fonts. However, a better way is to generate barcdoes via barcode component. Here is a sample of vb.net create pdf templates with code128 barcodes (http://www.keepdynamic.com/dotnet-barcode/barcode/code-128.shtml).
beco fuanbeco fuan
Hello, has your problem been solved?
I've ever meet the same problem, luckily, I found the resolution on google, so I hope my experience can help you as well.
You can add your data to a Excel or Word document, then you need a third party plug-in barcode contorl for Word (http://www.barcodelib.com/word_barcode/barcodes/code128.html) or excel (http://www.barcodelib.com/excel_barcode/barcodes/code128.html).
Then print your code 128 label with these tools directly, it's very handy for you. Or you can find many other such tools on google.
Hope my answer can give you a reference.
Good luck.