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Stock Take Ticket Format

You use this program to define the page layout for printing your stock take tickets.

A ticket format must be defined before you can use the Stock Take Tickets program.

Inventory Stock Take Ticket Format

Field Description
Save Select this to save the information you entered.
Change Define and maintain the preferences and print positions for your Stock Take Tickets.
Alignment

Select this to print a document using test characters to verify that the print positions and fields you defined are correctly aligned on your stationery.

It is advisable to print the alignment to the printer on which you will be printing your documents.

Print Select this to print the stationery format information you defined and saved.

It is advisable to keep this report for disaster recovery purposes.

Copy Format Select this to copy a Stock Take Ticket format from another company to your current company.
Cancel Select this to exit the program without saving any information you entered.

If you made any changes to the format, then the program prompts you to save or discard these changes.

Alignment

You use the Alignment function to print one or more tickets using test characters to verify that the fields you have defined are correctly aligned on your stationery.

Field Description
Number of pages to print Indicate the number of test tickets to print. You can select up to 5 test tickets to print, one after the other.

This enables you to check whether the information on each ticket is aligned correctly not only on the first ticket, but also on each subsequent ticket.

Print test format alignment?  
OK Select this to print the test format alignment according to your selection at the previous field.
Cancel Select this to return to the previous screen without printing an alignment.

Copy

The Copy function enables you to copy a Stock Take Ticket format from another company to your current company.

Field Description
Current company This indicates the company in which you are currently working. This is the company to which the format will be copied.
Copy from company Indicate a valid company from which you want to copy a Stock Take Ticket format.
OK Select this to copy the Stock Take Ticket format from the company you selected to the current company.
Cancel Select this to return to the previous screen without copying a format.

Ticket Preferences

You use the Preferences section to define the default page layout for your stock take tickets.

The following preferences can be selected when you use highlight the Ticket preferences line and select the Change function:

Field Description
Total number of lines on a ticket

Enter the number of lines you want to print on each ticket (i.e. The height of a ticket, including the vertical gap before the next ticket).

A maximum of 66 lines can be assigned to each ticket.

Highest start column across page Indicate the maximum column number that can be specified when defining the column print positions for fields on the document.

This must be in the range 1-150.

See also Preference restrictions.

Gap from start of one ticket to next

Indicate the number of columns between the start of one ticket and the start of the next (i.e. The width of one ticket, including the gap before the next ticket).

This gap cannot exceed 66 columns.

Number of tickets to view

Indicate the number of tickets to be printed across the page.

This must be in the range 1 to 99.

Number of tickets per bin

Indicate how many tickets you want to print for each bin.

You can override the entry made here at the time of printing tickets using the Stock Take Tickets program.

Up to 9999 tickets can be printed for each bin.

Number of copies of each ticket Indicate the number of tickets to print for each stock code.
Print date format

This indicates the format in which dates are printed on Stock Take tickets.

The system defaults to using the date format configured for the company (Company Maintenance) but you can select to use the Short date format or the Long date format.

Format is 6.1 compatible This applies to stationery formats defined in the SYSPRO 6.1 SP1 version of the software and is enabled by default for stationery formats defined in that version.

When enabled, the document is printed in the format specified in the SYSPRO 6.1 SP1 version of the software providing no presentation lengths are changed against the Keys defined in the Setup Options program.

Close

Select this to return to the previous screen.

You save the changes you made to the format at the time of exiting the program.

Ticket Detail Section

You use this section to define the row and column at which you want to print the required fields on your Stock Take tickets. The row refers to the vertical (top to bottom) position on the ticket, while the column refers to the horizontal (left to right) position on the ticket.

When you highlight the Detail section Format option and select the Change function, the fields for which print positions can be defined are displayed.

The following options can be used to define/maintain the print positions for these fields:

Field Description
Clear Row/Column

Select this to set the row and column print positions for the highlighted field to zero, so that the field is not printed.

Text Fields Select this to enter the text to print and its specific position on each document.
Change Select this to maintain the row and column print positions for the highlighted field.
Close

Select this to close the current window and return to the previous window. You save the changes you made when exiting the program.

Text Fields

The Text Fields function enables you to enter up to five lines of text (15 characters per line) that you want to print at a specific position on each ticket.

The Row specification for any field cannot exceed 66 and cannot exceed the number of lines defined for the ticket. The Column specification for any field cannot exceed 120.

Field Description
Clear text Select this to clear the text and print positions for the highlighted text field.
Change Select this to maintain the highlighted text line.
Detail Section Text Entry  
Text Enter the actual text that must be printed on the Stock Take ticket.
Row

Indicate the vertical position (i.e. Top to bottom) at which you want to print the text entered in the Text field.

Column

Indicate the horizontal position (i.e. Left to right) at which you want to print the text entered in the Text field.

OK Select this to accept the information you entered for the text field.
Cancel Select this to ignore the information you entered for the text field and to return to the previous screen.
Close Select this to return to the previous screen.

Positions

You use the Change function from within the Detail Section to maintain the row and column print positions for the highlighted field in the section.

The Row specification for any field cannot exceed 65 and the Column specification for any field cannot exceed 120.

Field Description
Positions

All measurements are based from the top left hand corner of the page.

For some fields, only the Row or only the Column may be available for you to indicate.

To assist you in positioning the fields correctly, you can use the Print Mask program to print a grid of the required columns and lines. Ensure that the layout mask is output to the printer on which you will be printing your documents.

Row

Indicate the vertical position (i.e. top to bottom) at which you want to print the highlighted field.

Column

Indicate the horizontal position (i.e. left to right) at which you want to print the highlighted field.

OK Select this to accept the print positions you entered.
Cancel Select this to ignore the print position you entered and to return to the previous screen.

Fields

The following table lists the fields you can print in the Ticket Detail section:

[Note]

Fields that can be printed as barcodes are denoted with the words (with attribute). Refer to Barcode Printing.

Field Origin/Comment
Stock code  
Stock description  
Warehouse  
Warehouse description  
Bin location  
Product class  
Unit of measure  
Ticket number  
System date  
Unit cost  
Stock code (2nd position)  
Stock description (2nd position)  
Ticket number (2nd position)  
Stock code (with attribute)  
Bin location (with attribute)  
Copy number