You use this program to define the page layout for printing your stock take tickets.
A ticket format must be defined before you can use the Stock Take Tickets program.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Save | Select this to save the information you entered. |
| Change | Define and maintain the preferences and print positions for your Stock Take Tickets. |
| Alignment | Print a ticket using test characters to verify that the fields you have defined are correctly aligned on your stationery. |
| Select this to print the stationery format information
you defined and saved for the Stock Take Tickets. It is advisable to keep this report for disaster recovery purposes. |
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| Copy Format | Select this to copy a Stock Take Ticket format from another company to your current company. |
| Cancel | Select this to exit the program without saving any
information you entered. If you made any changes to the format, then the program prompts you to save or discard these changes. |
You use the Alignment function to print one or more tickets using test characters to verify that the fields you have defined are correctly aligned on your stationery.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Number of pages to print | Indicate the number of test tickets to print. You can
select up to 5 test tickets to print, one after the
other. This enables you to check whether the information on each ticket is aligned correctly not only on the first ticket, but also on each subsequent ticket. |
| Print test format alignment? | |
| OK | Select this to print the test format alignment according to your selection at the previous field. |
| Cancel | Select this to return to the previous screen without printing an alignment. |
The Copy function enables you to copy a Stock Take Ticket format from another company to your current company.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Current company | This indicates the company in which you are currently working. This is the company to which the format will be copied. |
| Copy from company | Indicate a valid company from which you want to copy a Stock Take Ticket format. |
| OK | Select this to copy the Stock Take Ticket format from the company you selected to the current company. |
| Cancel | Select this to return to the previous screen without copying a format. |
You use the Preferences section to define the default page layout for your stock take tickets.
The following preferences can be selected when you use highlight the Ticket preferences line and select the Change function:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Total number of lines on a ticket |
Enter the number of lines you want to print on each ticket (i.e. The height of a ticket, including the vertical gap before the next ticket). A maximum of 66 lines can be assigned to each ticket. |
| Highest start column across page | Indicate the maximum column number that can be specified when
defining the column print positions for fields on the document. This must be in the range 1-150. See also Preference restrictions. |
| Gap from start of one ticket to next |
Indicate the number of columns between the start of one ticket and the start of the next (i.e. The width of one ticket, including the gap before the next ticket). This gap cannot exceed 66 columns. |
| Number of tickets to view |
Indicate the number of tickets to be printed across the page. This must be in the range 1 to 99. |
| Number of tickets per bin |
Indicate how many tickets you want to print for each bin. You can override the entry made here at the time of printing tickets using the Stock Take Tickets program. Up to 9999 tickets can be printed for each bin. |
| Number of copies of each ticket | Indicate the number of tickets to print for each stock code. |
| Print date format |
This indicates the format in which dates are printed on Stock Take tickets. The system defaults to using the date format configured for the company (Company Maintenance), but you can select to use the Short date format or the Long date format. |
| Format is 6.1 compatible | This applies to stationery formats defined in the SYSPRO 6.1 SP1
version of the software and is enabled by default for stationery formats
defined in that version. When enabled, the document is printed in the format specified in the SYSPRO 6.1 SP1 version of the software providing no presentation lengths are changed (Set Key Information). |
| Close |
Select this to return to the previous screen. You save the changes you made to the format at the time of exiting the program. |
You use this section to define the row and column at which you want to print the required fields on your Stock Take tickets. The row refers to the vertical (top to bottom) position on the ticket, while the column refers to the horizontal (left to right) position on the ticket.
When you highlight the Detail section Format option and select the Change function, the fields for which print positions can be defined are displayed.
The following options can be used to define/maintain the print positions for these fields:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Clear Row/Column |
Select this to delete the row and column print positions for the highlighted field. When you select this function, the print positions for the highlighted field are set to zero, which means the field is not printed. |
| Text Fields | Select this to enter up to five lines of text (15 characters per line) to print at a specific position on each stock take ticket. |
| Change | Select this to maintain the row and column print positions for the highlighted field. |
| Close |
Select this to close the current window and return to the previous window. You save the changes you made to the format at the time of exiting the program. |
The Text Fields function enables you to enter up to five lines of text (15 characters per line) that you want to print at a specific position on each stock take ticket.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Clear text | Select this to clear the text and print positions for the highlighted text field. |
| Change | Select this to maintain the highlighted text line. |
| Detail Section Text Entry | |
| Text | Enter the actual text that must be printed on the Stock Take ticket. |
| Row |
Indicate the vertical position (i.e. Top to bottom) at which you want to print the text entered in the Text field. The row specification for any field cannot exceed 66. In addition, it cannot exceed the number of lines defined for the ticket. |
| Column |
Indicate the horizontal position (i.e. Left to right) at which you want to print the text entered in the Text field. The column specification for any field cannot exceed 120. |
| OK | Select this to accept the information you entered for the text field. |
| Cancel | Select this to ignore the information you entered for the text field and to return to the previous screen. |
| Close | Select this to return to the previous screen. |
You use the Change function from within the Detail Section to maintain the row and column print positions for the highlighted field in the section.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Positions |
All measurements are based from the top left hand corner of the page. For some fields, only the Row or only the Column may be available for you to define. To assist you in positioning the fields correctly, select the Print Mask for Document Alignment to print a grid of the required columns and lines. Ensure that the layout mask is output to the printer on which you will be printing your Stock Take tickets. |
| Row |
Indicate the vertical position (i.e. top to bottom) at which you want to print the highlighted field. The row specification for any field cannot exceed 66. |
| Column |
Indicate the horizontal position (i.e. Left to right) at which you want to print the highlighted field. The column specification for any field cannot exceed 120. |
| OK | Select this to accept the print positions you entered. You save the changes you made to the format at the time of exiting the program. |
| Cancel | Select this to ignore the print position you entered and to return to the previous screen. |
The following table lists the fields you can print in the Ticket Detail section:
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Fields that can be printed as barcodes are denoted with the words (with attribute). Refer to Barcode Printing. |
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| Field | Origin/Comment |
|---|---|
| Stock code | |
| Stock description | |
| Warehouse | |
| Warehouse description | |
| Bin location | |
| Product class | |
| Unit of measure | |
| Ticket number | |
| System date | |
| Unit cost | |
| Stock code (2nd position) | |
| Stock description (2nd position) | |
| Ticket number (2nd position) | |
| Stock code (with attribute) | |
| Bin location (with attribute) | |
| Copy number |