I have set up bartender to auto print from a job in Epicor, but it only prints the data in the original *.bt file.
I have that file set as the database as were shown in the training and have a “File Integration” set up so when a new .*bt file is created it converts it into a .btw file and then prints.
Now its completing this process but the converted file will not open in Bartender and says its and unsupported file type despite it being a .btw file. So the data in the original file just prints
BTW files are binary format files. bt files are just text files. That would be like making a BTW file in notepad and expecting BarTender to open it. File integration is just renaming it. It’s not doing any type of conversion. If you want to view the data in BarTender with your format file you have to attach the file as a datasource.
Ah yes makes sense, thank you. Strange it was shown to us like this in training there is some text that needs to be removed to make it a readable file for Bartender this is what’s stopping it.
I will have to find a way of removing that before its changed to a btw.
Well yes so, in a bt file you have at a minimum 4 lines
Commands for what printer, how many copies, what label format
Termination for the command
The headers for your data
Your first row of data
And beyond would be any additional rows of data
If you want to load the data into your label format (this is where the remove bit might have been misconstrued) you have to remove lines 1 and 2 from the file, save it as a “.txt” file and then attach basically what is now a CSV as your datasource in BarTender designer.