Application
5.1 Program
5.1.4.3
Format
Table 5- 24
Format
Parameter
Possible values
Filter
Off
•
Position
•
ID
•
GS1
•
Format text
see "Format text" input
box
Multicode
like "Format text" input
format text
box
44
Default
Description
Off
In this field, you specify whether and how the result
string or filtered partial texts, quality values, posi-
tions, etc. of this processing step are to be format-
ted.
Off
•
No character in the read codes is suppressed.
Nor are any characters added.
Position
•
Only one substring of the string of read codes is
taken into account. You specify its properties in
the "Start position" and "Length" input boxes.
ID
•
Only substrings of the string of read codes are
taken into account. You specify which substrings
are taken into account and in which order they
are output in the "Separators" and "Filter ID" in-
put boxes.
GS1
•
Only substrings of the string of read codes are
taken into account. You specify which substrings
are taken into account and in which order they
are output in the "Filter ID" input box.
Note
This setting is only useful for codes with data in
GS1 format. For other codes, the filter result is
always empty with this setting.
Different input boxes are displayed, depending on
the set value. These are described below.
%s
With this input box, you can specify the content and
the format of the string to be output.
%s
You specify how the overall result of a read of multi-
ple codes is formatted.
The formatting instruction "%s" (filtered result string)
refers to the already formatted individual results in
this case.
Note
The multicode format text is used only when the
"Number of codes" check box in the "Multicode"
group is selected.
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