Text Properties - Datasource Set to Prompt
Selecting Prompt as the datasource for text will cause the interface to change as follows.
You may not have decided the values for the text data during design time and want to defer data entry until print time. In this dialog, you will define a variable name that will act as a placeholder for print time data. During print time, (after you have selected File : Print from the menu, and click OK ) SmartCodeStudio will display a Prompt dialog with this variable name. In the Prompt dialog, you will enter a value for this variable for each label. SmartCodeStudio will use the value entered at print time as the text data. Field Name - name of the input field. This name can be used in the Linked Field feature. For example, you can have two fields, one is Serial Number, the other, Part Number. This two fields are given the field names serial and part. In the Linked Field feature, the data of this two fields can be combined together to form a new field.
You may not have decided the values for the text data during design time and want to defer data entry until print time.
In this dialog, you will define a variable name that will act as a placeholder for print time data. During print time, (after you have selected File : Print from the menu, and click OK ) SmartCodeStudio will display a Prompt dialog with this variable name.
In the Prompt dialog, you will enter a value for this variable for each label. SmartCodeStudio will use the value entered at print time as the text data. Field Name - name of the input field. This name can be used in the Linked Field feature. For example, you can have two fields, one is Serial Number, the other, Part Number. This two fields are given the field names serial and part. In the Linked Field feature, the data of this two fields can be combined together to form a new field.
In the Prompt dialog, you will enter a value for this variable for each label. SmartCodeStudio will use the value entered at print time as the text data.
Field Name - name of the input field. This name can be used in the Linked Field feature. For example, you can have two fields, one is Serial Number, the other, Part Number. This two fields are given the field names serial and part. In the Linked Field feature, the data of this two fields can be combined together to form a new field.