Incrementing GDF per set of records (i.e. per print copy)

Ira Horecka

• 25 de agosto de 2020 00:05

This seems like a straight-forward concept, but I cannot figure it out.

I want to print an incrementing (++1) GDF serial number that retains a constant serial number per batch of records. E.g. say I have six records (A, B, C, D, E, F). An example of the serial number when concatenated with a record is "A_1".

Desired outcome (let's say I'm starting anew with an increment=1) :: printing all six records of one print copy will yield: (A_1, B_1, C_1, D_1, E_1, F_1). Next, printing all six records with two print copies will yield: (A_2, B_2, C_2, D_2, E_2, F_2, A_3 B_3, C_3, D_3, E_3, F_3).

Current close-but-not-quite outcome #1 :: I set "When to increment : Event" under serialization-transform as "Every record". This, however, yields the following outcome (say I print two copies with an increment=1): (A_1, A_1, B_2, B_2, C_3, C_3, D_4, D_4, E_5, E_5, F_6, F_6).

Current close-but-not-quite outcome #2 :: I set "When to increment : Event" under serialization-transform as "Every print job". This, however, yields the following outcome (say I print two copies with an increment=1): (A_1, A_1, B_1, B_1, C_1, C_1, D_1, D_1, E_1, E_1, F_1, F_1).

Any suggestion would be great! Thanks

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  Peter Thane

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • 25 de agosto de 2020 22:18

  You need to set the number up as two separate sub stings that have different serialisation:

  String1 

  Set to Alphabetical only and to increment by 1 each label 

  Reset set to return to A when F is reached in the sequence.

   

  String2

  Set as below plus configure the reset as you require (each job etc)

  

   

  This gives: 

   

  

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  Ira Horecka

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • 26 de agosto de 2020 19:16

  Hi Pete,

  Thank you for the detailed answer. I will work on your suggestion for the numerical serialization.

  I'd like to mention that I oversimplified my symptoms in the post. I am actually working with a character string prefixes sourced from a database. There are six unique strings ("DRNA", "DDNA", "KHI1", "KHI2", "XLO1", "XLO2"). To make it more complicated, these records could be selected by the user (1...6) during a print job.

  So if a user selected "DRNA", "DDNA", "KHI1" in the prompt and wanted two serialized sets, the desired outcome will look like: DRNA_1, DDNA_1, KHI1_1, DRNA_2, DDNA_2, KHI1_2

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