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Results User’s Guide
for UNIX


Defining Labels Manually

This section describes how to define a label using only menu-driven features to pick fields and insert text into a label layout. The examples in this section show inventory labels that list the item number, unit cost, description, and unit weight for the items you have on hand.

  1. Select the Define option and select the files you want to use to define the labels.
  2. Results prompts you to have fields selected automatically.

    If you select Yes, Results automatically tries to build address labels. By default, it looks for address label fields (Name, Address, Address2, etc.). Field names included in the automatic layout are defined through the Administration module by your database administrator. Your database administrator can change the automatic label layout and alter the defaults to lay out any type of label based on any group of field names.

    If you select No, Results leads you through a process to manually select the fields for the label.

  3. Select the No option.
  4. A list of all the fields in the active files appears. You can select any of these fields for your labels. To select a field, highlight it and press RETURN.

  5. Select the fields in the order you want them to appear.
  6. As you select each field, Results numbers them in the order in which you select them. If you select a field by mistake, highlight it again and press RETURN to deselect it. If you select a field out of order, highlight it and type the order number next to it. Results renumbers the other fields automatically.

  7. Press GO to insert these fields into the Label Layout window.
  8. For example, you can insert your fields in this layout:

    The field names have the names of the files they come from as their prefixes. You can add other fields to this by positioning the cursor and pressing GET. Once you exit out of the definition window you can get back in to edit it by selecting the Define option.

  9. If necessary, use the Settings option to adjust the Total Height value. Consider the height of the label and height of the label definition.

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