barcode in scripts

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

plz explain me abt the use of barcodes in scripts and how to do it.

Thanks in advance

samanvi.P

[ferry_lianto · Accepted solution]

Hi,

A barcode label is a special symbology to represent human readable information such as a material number or batch number

in machine readable format.

There are different symbologies for different applications and different industries. Luckily, you need not worry to much about that as the logistics supply chain has mostly standardized on 3 of 9 and 128 barcode symbologies - which all barcode readers support and which SAP support natively in it's printing protocols.

Barcodes are nothing more than a font definition and is part of the style sheet associated with a particular SAPScript form. The most important aspect is to place a parameter in the line of the form that points to the data element that you want to represent as barcode on the form, i.e. material number. Next you need to set the font for that parameter value to one of the supported barcode symbologies.

Behind every output form is a print program that collects all the data and then pass it to the form. The form contains the layout as well as the font, line and paragraph formats. These forms are designed using SAPScript (a very easy but frustratingly simplistic form format language) or SmartForms that is more of a graphical form design tool.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d9/4a94c851ea11d189570000e829fbbd/content.htm

http://www.sap-img.com/abap/details-information-about-sap-barcodes.htm

http://www.servopack.de/Files/HB/ZPLcommands.pdf

How to do it ...

- Go to SE71.

- Create a new character format.

- Press the standard button.

There you will find a bar code input field ... Choose the appropriate Bar code ...

Then use the character format to display the data in bar code ...

<C1>&V_BARCODE&<>

Regards,

Ferry Lianto