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Field

Description

Example Values

Collection Protocol

Short title of collection protocol(CP).

The default value is *, meaning any CP

Lung Cancer

Visit Site

Collection site of visit.

The default value is *, meaning any visit site

Arkansas Hospital

Specimen Type

Specimen type.

The default value is *, meaning any specimen type

Example 1: Whole Blood

Example 2: Cryopreserved Cells

Users

Login name of OpenSpecimen user who will be printing labels.

The default value is *, meaning any user.

John Doe, Mary Thomas, etc.

Ip Range

Specifies IP address range, using CIDR notation, of workstations of users who will be issuing print label requests.

The default value is *, meaning any workstation

Example 1: 192.168.2.0/24 matches IPv4 addresses in range 192.168.2.0 to 192.168.2.255

Example 2: 2001:db8::/48 matches IPv6 addresses in range 2001:db8:0:0:0:0:0:0 to 2001:db8:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff

Label Type

Type of label depending on how and where it will be used e.g. Cap, Slide. If specified, the value of this field is written to both the database table and the cmd file. The printer software can read this type and print labels accordingly.

The default value is *, meaning don't care

Cap, Slide, or any other value that is used to denote the type of printing the printer software needs to carry out

Label Design

The name of the design template to use for printing labels. This value is of interest to printer software in deciding how to label content should be arranged and printed.

The default value is *, meaning don't care

Example: Cryovial Cap Label

Name of design template configured in the printer software. In this instance, the name specifies label design suitable for printing labels to be used for cryovial caps

Label Tokens

Specifies a list of attribute names of participants, visits, or specimens records that need to be printed on labels. For a detailed list of available tokens, please refer below table

Default value: specimen_label,specimen_type,specimen_location

'Label, Specimen Type, Created on'  will instruct OpenSpecimen to output values of the following attributes of specimen record - label, specimen type, and created on the date

Printer

Name of the printer. The printer name and their network addresses are configured in printer software to direct the label printing to the appropriate printer

rosy, daisy

rosy and daisy are symbolic names that can be configured in printer software to send requests to printers configured at IP address 192.168.2.110 and 192.168.2.220 respectively

Output Directory

The absolute path of directory on the local filesystem that OpenSpecimen uses to generate cmd files. This should be a shared directory that is accessible to OpenSpecimen as well as printer software (like Bartender or Nice Label)

The default value is * indicating do not generate cmd files

E:/Printer/OpenSpecimenPrintedFiles/

File Format

The format of the data contained in the printed file. Supported values are "CMD", CMD (Quoted Values), and "CSV".

Current command-line formats are tested with Bartender and Nice Label software. If you use some other software and face any issue, please let us know.


File Line Ending

Check LF and CRLF if the file contains the selected character at the end of the line.


File extension

The file is created with a selected extension.

txt/cmd

Lineage

All, Primary, Derived, and Aliquot

Advanced Print Rules

From v6.3, you can configure any field as a print-token including custom fields. Previously, you could only select specific tokens to choose from the dropdown.

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