Barcode Parameters and Templates

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Please note: Civica provides a default template, but does not offer support for building or editing mail merge templates.

Edit the properties of an existing template

To changes to the class number parsing properties or the mail merge printing properties of an existing template:

From the Module Menu select Cataloguing, MARC and then Spine Label & Barcode Printing.
Select the items to work with, e.g. for specific users and/or specific locations and/or specific collections. By default, the Details dialog will have the same users, locations and/or collections selected as the last time it was accessed.
Click Tools > Parameters and Templates > Barcode.
Select the template you want, and then make your changes to the properties.
- Barcode font size - The printed barcodes use this font to display numerical strings as barcodes for printing. The Barcode font size is the font point size, and directly affects the size of the barcodes on printed copy.
Click OK.

Download a template to your PC

You can create new templates from scratch if you wish. However, to make the task easier, you can base a new template on an existing one. To download a spine label template to your PC for you to work with:

From the Module Menu select Cataloguing, MARC and then Spine Label.
Select the spine label requests you want to work with, e.g. for specific users and/or specific locations and/or specific collections. By default, the Details dialog will have the same users, locations and/or collections selected as the last time it was accessed.
Click Tools > Parameters and Templates > Barcode.
Select the template you want, and then click Download Template.

Upload a new template

When you are browsing to add a new spine label template to the list you must go through My Network Places, i.e. the template must be in a shared folder that all PCs in the branch can see. Do not browse directly to your PC because then other PCs will not be able to see this template.

To add a new spine label template to the list:

From the Module Menu select Cataloguing, MARC and then Spine Label & Barcode Printing.
Select the spine label requests you want to work with, e.g. for specific users and/or specific locations and/or specific collections. By default, the Details dialog will have the same users, locations and/or collections selected as the last time it was accessed.
Click Tools > Parameters and Templates > Barcode.
Click Upload Template.
Browse to find the template you want, and then click Open to add it to the list.
Click OK.

Delete a template

To delete a spine label template:

From the Module Menu select Cataloguing, MARC and then Spine Label.
Select the spine label requests you want to work with, e.g. for specific users and/or specific locations and/or specific collections. By default, the Details dialog will have the same users, locations and/or collections selected as the last time it was accessed.
Click Tools > Parameters and Templates > Barcode.
Select the template you want, click Delete, and then click Yes at the confirmation prompt.
Click OK.

Specify the default template

To specify the template to be used for the spine labels:

From the Module Menu select Cataloguing, MARC and then Spine Label & Barcode Printing.
Select the spine label requests you want to work with, e.g. for specific users and/or specific locations and/or specific collections. By default, the Details dialog will have the same users, locations and/or collections selected as the last time it was accessed.
Click Tools > Parameters and Templates > Barcode.
Select the template you want, click Set Default, and then click Yes at the confirmation prompt.
Click OK.