topic Re: Barcode in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Barcode

Former Member — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:00:45 GMT

Hi all,

I am creating a smartform for bill report.

and i am facing problem to access barcode

please tell me some how i can do coding for barcode.

thanks and regards

sankar.

Re: Barcode

Former Member — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:03:37 GMT

Hi Sankar,

To print the bar code follow the steps:

1. CREATE THE PARAGRAPH AND CHARACTER FORMATS BY USING THE “SMARTSTYLE” TCODE R SELECT THE “STYLE” RADIOBUTTON IN “SMARTFORMS” TCODE(WHICH IS CREATED FOR SMARTFORMS).

2. GIVE “P1” AS PARAGRAPH FORMAT

3. CLICK THE “FONT” TAB,THEN ENTER THE font family n font size n color as u require

4. CREATE THE NODE FOR CHARACTER FORMAT "C1"

5. SELECT THE BAR CODE NAME AS “BC_EAN8”

6. CLICK THE “FONT” TAB AND CHANGE THE OPTIONS WHICH U WANT.

7. SAVE,AND ACTIVATE IT.

8. CREATE THE SMARTFORM in transaction "SMARTFORMS"

9. take a window, create text for that window & in that text Click on “output options” tab, select the style which u created earlier

10. in text editor write some text ex: hello & assign the character format to it like <c1>hello

11. save & activate

12. see the print preview, u can view the hello in form of barcodes.

Plzz reward if it is useful,

Mahi.

Re: Barcode

Former Member — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:56:25 GMT

check this

To Create a Bar code prefix:

1) Go to T-code - SPAD -> Full Administration -> Click on Device Type -> Double click the device for which you wish to create the print control -> Click on Print Control tab ->Click on change mode -> Click the plus sign to add a row or prefix say SBP99 (Prefix must start with SBP) -> save you changes , it will ask for request -> create request and save

2) Now when you go to SE73 if you enter SBP00 for you device it will add the newly created Prefix

Create a character format C1.Assign a barcode to the character format.Check the check box for the barcode.

The place where you are using the field value use like this

<C1> &itab-field& </C1>.

You will get the field value in the form of barcode.

Which barcode printer are you using ? Can you download this file and see.

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

It will give an idea about barcode commands.

Check this link:

http://www.sap-img.com/abap/questions-about-bar-code-printing-in-sap.htm

Check this link:

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

Hope this link ll be useful..

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/66/1b45c136639542a83663072a74a21c/content.htm

go through these links and cose u r previous threads,

http://www.sap-img.com/abap/questions-about-bar-code-printing-in-sap.htm

http://www.erpgenie.com/abap/smartforms.htm

http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-basis/print-barcode-with-smartform-634396

http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-dev/printing-barcode-733550

Detailed information about SAP Barcodes

A barcode solution consists of the following:

a barcode printer

a barcode reader

a mobile data collection application/program

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.

You can print barcodes from SAP by modifying an existing output form.

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.

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.

Reward Points if found helpfull..

Cheers,

Chandra Sekhar.