Opticon ESL - Manual (Page 27)

Opticon ESL
DEMO KIT
User Manual
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Note 2: When changing the field sequence of your database, make sure you delete the
existing product database files. (See chapter 3.3 for more information)
(h) Image generator
Executable of the middleware application that parses the product database (dbase.csv)
and the link database (linked.csv) into BMP- and XML-files for each linked ESL. The layout
of the generated images and XML-files can be customized by changing the image layout-
file (XML-based) and the XML-template file.
Image layout: XML-based layout file that determines the layout of the images that will be
displayed on the ESLs. Currently the layout file can only be manually edited using a
text/XML editor. This process is described in the Appendix A: Editing the ESL template
files. (In the future it will be possible to design the layout using a graphical user interface.)
Info template: Template for the automatically generated XML-files for each linked ESL. In
most situations this template can be left untouched. Only if the positions of the unique ID
and/or the product description aren‟t located at respectively field 1 and field 3 in the CSV-
database, then these field numbers can easily be corrected. (See Appendix A: Editing the
ESL template files)
(i) Barcode terminal
The barcode terminal will be polling on the specified serial port for new ESL-product links
(link.csv) and will update the barcode terminal with the latest product database (scan.csv).
(j) Log files
Folder that will contain all ESL status information (EslLog.txt). T
he „SentImages‟-subfolder
is used by the server application to store the last sent image to an ESL.
(k) Apply
Save all settings and restart the Application.
(l) Reset
Restore settings to last known state.
(m) Cancel
Exit without saving settings.