Label Setup

Both these Label types are designed to work with the Zebra Printers through EPL coding.
EPL2 Programming Guide is available online at: https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra/manuals/en-us/printer/epl2-pm-en.pdf
Labels are now printed using Codeunits. Pre-designed Labels are designed in Codeunits 10000747 and 10000748.

Printer selection

A printer for EPL labels must be created using a Generic Text driver.

Add a printer in Windows:

Printer selection is done for each individual Label, for each user that should be able to print the selected label. Similar to Printer selection for Reports. Open the Shelf Label Functions page, and click the Printer Selection action.

On the Shelf Label Functions page it is also possible to test if the printer is connected, set up, and ready to print by clicking the Test Print button once the setup is done.
Using Codeunits for label printing makes it easier to customize your own Codeunits to print labels. Whether it is to call a Report, print directly to Zebra printer, or send information through XML or Web service to electronic labels, web stores and so on.

Label Functions are assigned to the item and can be store-specific:

You can assign default shelf and item labels to a Retail Product Group, which will be the default for the item when the retail product group is assigned to it:

The Store Card has a No Item Label Printing check box. Select it if you don't want item labels printed for the store, for example for a virtual store such as a head office.

Shelf label printing for a store is no longer controlled by a single check box. Instead, it is controlled per shelf label function using the Store Shelf Label Functions drill-down on the Store Card. See Store shelf label functions .

There are five Label parameters in Retail Setup:

Item Labels for Neg. Stock. For Item Labels the quantity printed is calculated from the stock. If the Item Labels for Neg. Stock check box is selected, one label is ordered if the stock is non-positive, otherwise no label is ordered.
Item Labels on Price Change. If the check box is selected then Item Labels are ordered when creating needed labels using the same criteria as for Shelf Labels. Note: This is more than just the prices.
Delete Printed Labels. If the check box is selected then the printing history is not kept. Note: Even with the option selected, the latest printed label is never deleted as it is used for reference if new labels are needed. Also note that only one label is saved for each day so in the case of many printings on the same day the data from the last print is saved in the history.
Days to keep Label History.
Shelf Label Type.
- Create Labels per Store
- Create Labels per Price Group
Switching between these options will delete all outstanding and processed shelf labels so the new label type starts with a clean slate.

Item-level shelf label setup (label code, text, quantity, red flag label code) is copied from the setup table of the old type to the setup table of the new type where a matching setup does not already exist, so items do not need to be set up again after switching. See Price Group Labels for how item setup differs between the two types.

Create Labels per Store
- Generates shelf label records for each store. The Store ID is included in each label record.
- In large installations with many stores and items, this can create a large volume of records and may take significant time to process.
Create Labels per Price Group
- Generates one shelf label record per Item No. / Price Group combination for each modified item that triggers label creation.
- Produces far fewer records and completes processing more quickly than the per-store option.

Label actions

When a record is created, modified or deleted in the following tables, an action is triggered for printing labels for the current item.

27	Item
5401	Item Variant
5404	Item Unit of Measure
7002	Sales Price
99001451	Barcodes
99001502	Offer
99001549	Item Label Setup
99001572	Shelf Label Setup

Needed labels

When the forms Shelf Label Print and Item Label Print are opened, the needed labels are created for the current Store.

If the system is set up to replicate by pre-actions in the Scheduler Setup, the system will run through all pre-actions, otherwise all Actions for the tables listed in Needed Labels.

After running through the pre-actions or Actions, the system updates the Store table for the current store with the Last Action for Label update.

For the Label to be created, a few conditions must be met:

Is the item distributed to the store?
Does the item have label setup?
Does the item have a valid Unit of Measure?

Scheduling label creation

The Label Utility codeunit can run automatically in the Scheduler to create needed labels automatically:

Create new jobs in the Scheduler Job page:

This applies when Shelf Label Type is set to Create Labels per Store. When it is set to Create Labels per Price Group, a different codeunit is scheduled instead. See Scheduling Price Group Label generation.

Store shelf label functions

Whether a store prints shelf labels is controlled per shelf label function, not by a single check box. On the Store Card, in the Label Information group, the Store Shelf Label Functions field shows a drill-down list of shelf label functions that are active for that store.

Only shelf label functions assigned to a store on this list generate label orders for that store. If the list is empty for a store, no shelf labels are generated for it.
Add or remove Label Code entries on the drill-down list to enable or disable individual shelf label functions per store, without affecting item labels or other shelf label functions.

The same Label Information group also shows the Pricer Store Id field, used when sending shelf labels to the Pricer electronic shelf label (ESL) system. See Pricer Electronic Shelf Labels.