Barcode badge software

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A good piece of advice. I've written material tag stuff that way, and it worked great.
Thank you



----- Original Message ----
From: Vic Drecchio <vic.drecchio@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:18:18 AM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Barcode badge software


I hate to sound so simple, but why not use Crystal Reports? You can
print to many media types with Crystal.

And you can create a formula in Crystal to reference a dynamic image
file.



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From: vantage@yahoogroups .com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com] On Behalf
Of Tony Hughes
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:31 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com
Subject: [Vantage] Barcode badge software

This message is half-warning, half-request for advice.

The warning: Avoid CardFive Vision software unless you plan to sit there
and manually enter all 500 of your employees by hand. If you want more
information, email me and I'll help.
CardFive software will not meet our needs. For $900 I expect something
slightly more complex than this. I have used low cost shareware that was
more robust than this. (WinZip, CuteFTP, etc)

If it can actually do what I want, who would know. There is no
instruction manual, and after 3 days of calling their support lines,
there's no answer at the US office or the Portugal office. The phone
just rings and rings and rings. No answer from email, either. Maybe they
didn't pay their bills?

The request: Can anyone recommend a badge printing software that will
allow any datasource (or at least SQL Server). I need to write the SQL
statement in good old SQL, and I need the source of any image file to be
a path I construct.
Something like this:

(select '*' + empid + '$I*' as barcode, name,
'\\server\mfgsysdat a\EmpPhoto\ LOT\' + empid + '.bmp' as filepath, jcdept
from empbasic where empstatus = 'A' or empstatus = 'I' order by jcdept,
lastname)

Know what I mean? Even Word's mail merge can do this.

Any help you can offer, I appreciate it!

Tony

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This message is half-warning, half-request for advice.

The warning: Avoid CardFive Vision software unless you plan to sit there and manually enter all 500 of your employees by hand. If you want more information, email me and I'll help.
CardFive software will not meet our needs. For $900 I expect something slightly more complex than this. I have used low cost shareware that was more robust than this. (WinZip, CuteFTP, etc)

If it can actually do what I want, who would know. There is no instruction manual, and after 3 days of calling their support lines, there's no answer at the US office or the Portugal office. The phone just rings and rings and rings. No answer from email, either. Maybe they didn't pay their bills?

The request: Can anyone recommend a badge printing software that will allow any datasource (or at least SQL Server). I need to write the SQL statement in good old SQL, and I need the source of any image file to be a path I construct.
Something like this:

(select '*' + empid + '$I*' as barcode, name, '\\server\mfgsysdata\EmpPhoto\LOT\' + empid + '.bmp' as filepath, jcdept from empbasic where empstatus = 'A' or empstatus = 'I' order by jcdept, lastname)

Know what I mean? Even Word's mail merge can do this.

Any help you can offer, I appreciate it!

Tony
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I hate to sound so simple, but why not use Crystal Reports? You can
print to many media types with Crystal.

And you can create a formula in Crystal to reference a dynamic image
file.



________________________________

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Tony Hughes
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:31 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Barcode badge software



This message is half-warning, half-request for advice.

The warning: Avoid CardFive Vision software unless you plan to sit there
and manually enter all 500 of your employees by hand. If you want more
information, email me and I'll help.
CardFive software will not meet our needs. For $900 I expect something
slightly more complex than this. I have used low cost shareware that was
more robust than this. (WinZip, CuteFTP, etc)

If it can actually do what I want, who would know. There is no
instruction manual, and after 3 days of calling their support lines,
there's no answer at the US office or the Portugal office. The phone
just rings and rings and rings. No answer from email, either. Maybe they
didn't pay their bills?

The request: Can anyone recommend a badge printing software that will
allow any datasource (or at least SQL Server). I need to write the SQL
statement in good old SQL, and I need the source of any image file to be
a path I construct.
Something like this:

(select '*' + empid + '$I*' as barcode, name,
'\\server\mfgsysdata\EmpPhoto\LOT\' + empid + '.bmp' as filepath, jcdept
from empbasic where empstatus = 'A' or empstatus = 'I' order by jcdept,
lastname)

Know what I mean? Even Word's mail merge can do this.

Any help you can offer, I appreciate it!

Tony






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