FAQ Label Designer
(Doc ID 2827789.1)
Last updated on MAY 18, 2023
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Oracle Warehouse Management Enterprise Edition Cloud ServiceInformation in this document applies to any platform.
Purpose
To provide the answers to frequently asked questions about Label Designer.
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In this Document
| Purpose |
| Questions and Answers |
| COMPANY PARAMETERS THAT ARE IMPACTING LABEL DESIGNER |
| Q1. What are the company parameters that are impacting the label printing? |
| Q2.How to use Labels created by label designer If there are already code labels on environment? |
| DATATYPE DYNAMIC AND DYNAMIC REPEATING |
| Q1.How to use data type dynamic ? |
| Q2.How to use data type dynamic repeating? |
| Q3.Labels are not printing all the values in the same page. |
| Q4.Why Multiple line gaps are created in OBLPN shipping label? |
| Q5.The Label does not print all the OBLPN's from a Pallet in multiple pages, is printing only the first 10 OBLPN's from 100. Why? |
| HOW TO SETUP THE LABEL TEMPLATE? |
| Q1.Labels Printed Failed To Get Designer Label Template During Print Label Pallet |
| Q2.What are the label types that can be used in the Label Template view UI screen? |
| Q3.Duplicate first page in a label template. How can I delete it? |
| MOST FREQUENTLY USED MAPPING FIELDS USED IN LABEL DESIGNER |
| Q1.What are the Label Designer field mapping for: Item Code, LPN Number, Batch Number, Attribute B, and Attribute C |
| PRINT LABEL FROM UI SCREENS ISSUES |
| Q1. How we can change label formatting? |
| Q2.How I can print the label to a specific printer? |
| Q3.How can I Print preview a label? |
| Q4.How to print Labels while waving and these waves will run by the Schedule Job? |
| Q5.Why email confirmation of labels printed from UI has not been sent? |
| Q6.The label designer or WMS cannot generate print previews or print the label. |
| Q7.Label ZPL Content Not Coming Via Emall For Items But Works For OBLPNs |
| Q8.Print OBLPN Does Not Print The Label |
| Q9.How can The Packing List Sorting the Data By Order Number (ascending Order)? |
| Q10.How To Print Multiple Case Labels? |
| Q11.How to Print 2 Labels for the Same IBLPN at Receiving? |
| Q12.Unable to print Item Label due to error - coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found |
| Q13.When printing a label that is using a layout created in Label Designer, using Type = QR CODE, the image prints very small. The QR Code needs to be printed large enough for it to be scanned. |
| Q14.Print Label For Non Cubed Picking |
| Q15.Column Ordering Print OBLPN Not Printing |
| Q16.How Can We Use Multiple Column Names In Order By field In Label Designer? |
| Q17.Label Printing ERROR: Rollback du to data base error ERROR: ORA-00904: ":ITEM""CODE" : invalid identifier when used in the order by filed item.code or item.id |
| Q18.Barcode Value Changes Character Underscore "_" Into A Hyphen "-" When Printing |
| Q19.How to Print sum of packed qty on the Packing Label based on OBLPN & Batch Nbr combination on Shipping Label? |
| Q20.The OBLPN is printed blank.What could be possible cause? |
| Q21.In the label, Barcode is also generating for the column attribute which is null. What setup is required to do not print the barcode when the value is null? |
| Q22.How to convert label designer date format from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY? |
| Q33.Label Designer Ship To and Ship Date fields are changing to Retailer to Retailer and Promised Date/Schedule Ship Date when printing. |
| PRINT LABEL FROM RF SCREENS ISSUES |
| Q1.Label Template mismatch compared to RF and UI |
| Q2.How To Use “Prompt-Printer” For Cubed Picking Transaction in RF-Text: Pack NC Active {order}? |
| Q3.Why New Facility Cannot Print Labels From RF? |
| Q4.How to print IB Pallet Label from RF? |
| Q5.How to print multiple copies for a label from RF? |
| Q6.Print through RF-Text: Print Label with the parameter type: set up to OBLPN does not print the customer OBLPN set up in the Label template view, instead is printing the base shipping label. |
| PRINTING WEBSERVICE LABELS |
| Q1. How To Change Printer Orientation From The Webservice label And Solve The Close Tag Missing? |
| Q2.How To Print The Carrier's Shipping Label When Using Carrier Integration? |
| Q3.How To Remove Certain Data Off UPS Shipping Label? |
| Q5.How to print Multi Page Carrier Label? |
| OTHER PRINTING QUESTIONS |
| Q1.ZPL Label files printed in Encrypted format - Is IPP or IPPS Supported ? |
| Q2.Printing 200 or more blind labels complete with error: 504 Gateway Time-Out |
| Q3.Printed Blind Labels are not showing Destination Facility |
| Q4.How to Print Colored Boxes on IBLPN Label for a Standard or Zebra Printer? |
| SIZING LABELS |
| Q1:Why Is Shipping Label Skipping To The Next Page Of The Label? |
| Q2.When printing a label designed in Label Designer and the label has Landscape paper type the actual print is done sideways (like in portrait format) . Why? |
| Q3.Blind Labels Barcode Are Printed At Left Side, Out Of Printing Area |
| Q4.How to print label with Dimension 4x6.5? |
| Q5. We are setting up a 4x6 label design with 300 DPI. The zebra printer has 600 DPI. Is it still possible to have a 4x6 label setup with this printer? |
| FONT ISSUES /PRINTING IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES |
| Q1.Japanese Characters Are Not Supported For Shipping Labels? |
| Q2.Labels for LPNs Not Being Printed With Barcodes/Error Message "zint: command not found" In Logs While Printing Labels |
| Q3.When attempting to print Packing Slip, the following error occurs.Can't open file "/usr/share/fonts/amiri/amiri-regular.ttf" |
| Q4.Why does Label Designer not print Chinese characters on Labels? |
| Q5.Why does WMS not insert ^CFJ so that Chinese characters will print on Labelary? |
| Q6.LPN Label Cannot Display Chinese , Display Blank |
| Q7.How To Print Few Fields In A Label Template In Different Languages? |
| IMPORT/EXPORT LABELS |
| Q1.How to export Label templates? |
| Q2.How to import Label Template? |
| Q3.How we can upload/import same template multiple times? |
| IMPORT IMAGE |
| Q1.Users Cannot Upload Images And Get Error Reverse for 'pyserver.universal_doc_label.views.designer' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{}' not found |
| MOST USED EXPRESSIONS |
| Q1.Label Designer - what is the option to change data formats to system acceptable formats? Is there a way to display dates in label designer in different formats? |
| Q2.Error While Printing Expression In Label Designer -- Cannot resolve keyword u'curr_location' into field |
| Q3.How to Extract a Portion of a String to Print It on an Outbound Label |
| Q4.How Can Users Create A Label That Prints Only A Part Of An Item String? |
| Q5.Error 'strftime' requires a 'datetime.date' object but received a 'NoneType'Expression When Printing For Data Matrix Label |
| Correct expression: |
| Q6.How To Print The IBLPN Current Location On IBLPN Label? (than can be a location or a pallet) |
| Q7.Label Date Format Showing as yyyy-mm-dd instead of dd-mm-yyyy |
| Q8.Received Timestamp In Receiving Label Is Not Displaying Time In Facility Time Zone |
| Q10.Label designer: print current qty if shipped qty is null |
| Q11.How can a string be converted into a date in the Label Designer? |
| Q12. How to Use Expressions For Bind Labels? |
| Q13.The function get_item_numbers used in expressions, has been changed after 22A , need () for passing null arguments. |
| Q13. How to change the container weigth kg having multiple decimals into lbs having 2 decimals? |
| Q14.How to Print LPN Create TS in MM/DD/YY HH:MM AM/PM format? |
| Q15.What Expression Can Be Used To Get Item Count From An oblpn - obcontainer.lbl? |
| Q16.How to print the trailer nbr on a Shipping label from OBLPN UI screen print Shipping label? |
Q18.How to print "Limited QTY" if the OBLPN contain a hazmat (hazarduous) item and the OBLPN's weigth is below 66 lbs., instead to print the UN Number? |
| MOST USED FUNCTIONS |
| Q1.Error 'NoneType'object When Using Function Of Label Designer DETERMINE_SKU_SINGLE_OR_MULTI |
| Q2.Why I cannot see all the functions in label type IB LPN - ibcontainer.lbl for example? |
| BARCODE FORMAT |
| Q1.Does WMS Support SSCC Barcodes? |
| Q2.Customers require labels in GS1-128 and not code128 format, know what is the equivalent GS1-128 code in WMS? |
| ENHANCEMENTS REQUESTS |
| E1.RFPrintLpnLbl OBLPN can be printed from RF with parameter set to OBLPN |
| E2.Can we print webservice label using Print Shipping Label API? |
| E3.Can we print distinct blind labels for IBLPN and OBLPN from Blind Labels button in IBLPN UI ? |
| E4.IBLPN label not showing option for column name item_characteristics brand code. |
| E5.The Russian Language. Arabic, Turkish fonts are not supported in the label designer currently. Customer can use the web reports as alternative. Idea Number: 32f2f01101. |
| E6.Access the field 'Item Facility Description" in Label Designer is an ER. |
| E7.Requirement to build custom functions or expressions in label designer |
| E9.How can I print label from Location UI be order by:pick_seq? |
| E10.How to Print IBLPN Labels which are Not Received (In-transit status) Using API or Standard RF? |
| E11.How to Auto-Print LPN Labels Upon Modification? |
| E12.How to display multiple barcodes corresponding to multiple SKUs in one OBLPN content label or IBLPN? |
| E13.Component Item information on Work Order label in label Designer |
| E14.IB Shipment LPN label printing order expectations:in the order of the lpn number |
| E15.In the OBLPN Contents Label, the same item having two different batch numbers are displayed in different lines |
| E16.IB Shipment Serial Label printed form RF |
| E17.Label Designer to add (sum) two fields together eg. Is there a way to add two weights to get a gross weight using Label Designer? |
| E18.Need to add the following fields to doc label designer order label:order_detail.erp_source_header_reference and load.cust_field_2 |
| E19.OB Pallet Label is not showing Pallet weight.Get the calculated total weight of the pallet on the label needs to be considered as an Enhancement Request. |
| E20.It is possible to have IBLPN and Serial number in the same label? |
| E21.IBLPN Label created in Label Designer not pulling pre-pack quantities-why is expression not working? |
| References |