How-to Create Barcode Labels
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Creating pages of barcode labels for printing is a great way to consolidate your asset management workflow into ServiceNow, printing custom labels for laptops and other devices in your organization.
See below for a step-by-step example of how to create your own barcode labels.
Ensure you have Yansa's app installed
Navigate to Barcode & QR Code Generator -> Barcode Generators and click 'New' to create a new .
The 'Test record' table in your Barcode Generator and the 'Source table' in your HTML to PDF Merge Template or Label Template should always be the same when using a Barcode Generator within a PDF template. This insures that dynamic data in both the Barcode Generator and PDF template will be pulled from the correct source.
Use the Generate PDF button in the Label Template header to create your labels. First, you'll see the 'un-merged' version of your labels.
Future label generation runs for the same data source will complete much faster due to caching.
Finally, click next and save/attach your label PDF to your desired location!
After setting the basic settings of the and saving the record, you'll need to create a new via the related list at bottom.
Ensure you have Yansa's app installed
Navigate to Yansa PDF Generator -> Label Templates and click 'New' to create a new .
After setting the basic settings of the and saving the record, you'll need to create new via the related list at bottom. For the QR/Barcode content, that Merge Map will look similar to the example below. Note how the Merge Map is embedded in the 'Template HTML' of the Label Template above.
To make it simple for your users to generate PDFs where & when they need, you can .
Also, you can automate the generation of PDFs via or .
Click Next and select a to merge data into your labels.
Generating barcodes & QR codes server-side takes time! When generating large numbers of labels, it can take several seconds or minutes to complete. It may be helpful to create multiple separate to break the process into parts.