Barcodes with report openoffice

[GWindhoff]

I have one simple question.

Is it possible to define code 128 barcode with report openoffice.

How can I define that a field (e.g. product.name) will be print out as an code 128 bacode?

Thanks in advance

Winni

[sraps]

Yes, you can create Code 128 by using "make_barcode" function. It's definition is:

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def barcode(code, code_type='EAN13', rotate=None, height=50, xw=1):

"code_type" option should be 'code128'...

I noticed that there is no manual entry for this function, sorry for that - will add that in a while.

Best regards,
Kaspars

[GWindhoff]

Thanks Kaspar,


and how could I use this function in OpenOffice.

Where should I define the Item to be printed as a barcode?

Winni

[GWindhoff]

What did I wrong?

TemplateSyntaxError: invalid syntax in expression "{'{urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0}value': barcode [code, code_type='code128', rotate=None, height=50, xw=1].product_id, '{urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0}value-type': __relatorio_guess_type(barcode [code, code_type='code128', rotate=None, height=50, xw=1].product_id)}" of "attrs" directive (, line 1) (/tmp/openoffice-report-0-IjZn.odt, line 1)

[sraps]

The directive would look like this:

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<barcode(object.product_id, 'code128')>

Where "object.product_id" is the string you would like to have encoded as barcode. Of course, you do not have to use "<" and ">" marks if you use Text Placeholder field type.

[sraps]

Sorry, you have to use Frame, as barcode() function returns image, which is being placed on report. There have been months since used "barcode" last time. So the correct code would be:

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image: barcode(object.product_id, 'code128')

For reference, on where you should place this directive, read chapter for the "Frame":
http://kndati.lv/index.php/en/openerp/open-erp-addons/reporting-engine/81-defining-template-directives

Best regards...

[GWindhoff]

Thanks!

Your Tool seemed to be very fine.

OpenERP makes no errors now.

But: Openoffice 3.2 can not open the odf file generated by Openerp.

For Openoffice the file is corrupt.

Do you have an Idea? Is Openoffice 3.2 the problem?

Regards

[sraps]

Do you use the latest release of "report_openoffice" and "report_openoffice_pdf"? There is a Relatorio bug which is incompatible with OOo 3.2. Our latest modules compensate the bug. Please try to use latest version of Relatorio (v 0.5.5) as well.

If the problem persists, could you post the resulting report, so we could make a "dissection" of it, to find the reason for the problem.

[rubiadia]

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[imageat]

why don't you use a C#.NET barcode generator to create code 128 barcode, simple and easy.