Opticon ESL - Manual (Page 13)

Opticon ESL
DEMO KIT
User Manual
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Since there are many types of mechanisms to mount shelf labels to shelves, the ESLs of
the demo kit are supplied without mounting clips. Please contact Opticon for more
information on the mounting possibilities of the ESLs to your shelves. For simple
demonstration purposes with small amounts of ESLs one might also consider using
double sided foam tape as a temporarily solution.
3.1.4. Installing the bar code terminal
The supplied barcode terminal can be used to link an ESL (using its unique MAC
addresses) to any type of product, objects or location as long as it has a unique identifier it
can be linked with. (I.e. an EAN-barcode, serial number, position, room number, etc.)
More information on how to set-up the barcode terminal can be found in chapter 7.1.
3.2. Linking a back office system to the ESL server
The ESL server application is triggered by CSV-files that are being placed in the specified
„Input Folder‟ by the back office. Using a shared folder it‟s possible to allow external access
by the back office from anywhere in the world.
If the back office link to the ESL system is not yet available, then it‟s also possible to
manually place (and rename) some CSV-
files in the „Input folder‟ (see chapter 5.1) for
demonstration purposes and testing.
See chapter 4 for information about on setting up the back office system.
3.3. Resetting the ESL system
After installing and configuring all the components listed in this chapter, it will be necessary
to reset the complete ESL system, since on start-up the ESL server will already have
parsed the example database file, which will have to be replaced with your own CSV-
export.
Also, if the field sequence of your CSV-export is ever changed, it will be necessary to reset the ESL
system by deleting the existing product database. However, do NOT delete the link database (step
3) because otherwise you will have to manually link all ESLs again using the barcode terminal. The
existing database files can also be replaced remotely by the back office by placing a complete
database CSV-file in the ‘Input folder’ that contains only empty modification fields. (See chapter
4.1).
To reset the ESL system manually, the following steps have to be taken:
1. If still present, delete the (sample) database file from the ‘Input folder’ of your installation
(“ProductData_1.csv). If it was already moved to the processed folder, then it’s not mandatory
to delete it.
2. Go to the Setup-window of the ESL server application and press the ‘Delete database’ button
to delete the generated database files: ‘dbase.csv’ and ‘scan.csv’.
3. (Optional) If you’ve manually linked any ESLs using the sample database or want to redo the
linking of all ESLs, then press the ‘Delete links’ button to delete the link file (linked.csv). Before