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The advanced Sequential Barcode functionality defines the sequence in which barcode or text objects are printed or exported. You can create sequences in two modes.
When in Counter mode, the iBarcoder creates the next data string automatically, constructing it from user defined prefix, starting number and postfix parts, and the increment value.
In the File mode a user needs to add a file, which contains a sequence of data strings. This can be either a text (.txt) file, or an Excel Workbook (.xlsx) file. To make sequential barcodes from Excel Workbook (.xlsx) file datasource, we need:
1. Switch to the Sequence Properties tab on the right of the iBarcoder window.
2. Check on the Serialize button, switch to File tab, and click the Browse… button to navigate to the Excel Workbook file that contains your sequential barcode data. Or just drag and drop the file over the Location text area.
After the panel with the Sheet and Column controls opens, make the choice, and click the Open button.
The sequential barcode data is taken from the selected Sheet and Column of the Excel Workbook file, and added to the selected object.
The Sequence Properties panel changes to display the list of sequential values.
You can easily add sequential data to several objects on your label.
The video on the left shows how to make this using different colums of the same .xlsx (Excel Wokbook) file.
After adding the data, you can print the label file, and/or save it for further use.
3. Print your labels using the File > Print menu option. The number of the labels is automatically set to the number of the data strings in the selected column of the Excel file datasource.
You can modify it by switching to the iBarcoder tab of the Print panel, and setting the Labels option to use the ‘From:’ and ‘To:’ values.
For Exporting sequential barcodes, use the File>Export Sequential Barcodes… menu option.
The titles of the exported files will consist of the prefix, and the index of current file. Alternativaly, you can set the iBarcoder to use the barcode data string as exported barcode file name using the ‘Use barcode data string as exported file name’ from iBarcoder > Preferences…
