Kinetic MES, Workstations & Bartender

Question on bartender integrations…

We have recently started using Bartender to handle label printing for PO receipts - all working fine. We are completing the receipts using the Biscit EKW app.

In terms of setup, the printer has been specified in the integration, so no issues there. That said, when we generate the file using the handheld device, the default printer for the workstation is present in the output file - so in theory we could just as easily change our BT integration so that it looks to the file for the printer information, rather than directly from the integration - I’ve tested it and it works either way.

We are now setting up Kinetic MES (browser) and intend to use Bartender again to manage the printing. I assumed the relationship between employee & workstation would work on a similar basis i.e. the MES user selects the workstation when they log in, the employee then logs in and completes whatever activity, printing tags as needed, and the default workstation printer info would be present in the output. But it just doesn’t seem to pass the workstation information into the output file. Everything else looks OK, aside from that.

Am I missing something glaringly obvious, or are we going to need to set up a BPM or similar to grab the workstation & linked printer info, to direct labels printed from the MES screen to the right place?

Just posting to try to push this up & see if anyone has any ideas. Thanks a lot!

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I did something were I built a this into the end activity UI.

From there I linked the Resources to resource printers.

There after invoke some custom coding in order to set the btw file to bartender which then consumes the file and dents the label to the specified label printer.

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Hi Alex

Thanks for that! It sounds like a logical solution, I think we will probably end up going down that path, or at least a similar one, so it’s good to know you’ve been able to make it work.

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We do the same as Alex on End Activity with custom code. We added a custom field to Operation master to hold the printer information.

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