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Labelling for CHARM Faceplates

Does anyone have a method or template (preferably Excel) for printing labels that fit the CHARM terminal cover?

Ideally I'd like to do an Export of the DST and Import the tagnames into the CHARM Label Templates

SimHogan

• 10 May 2018 1:32 PM
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• Ray Emerson

  

  • 10 May 2018 1:55 PM

  Hi there. What version of DeltaV are you running? I want to say v12.3.0 brought in a utility within DV Explorer to print labels. Right-click on the CIOC placeholder in the I/O Network, and you'll see an option to "Print Label".

  

  You can also export the configuration to XML and use the XSL templates under DVDATA\CharmsXsl. Should be easy to get into Excel from there.

  Cheers.

  Ray

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• SimHogan

  

  • 10 May 2018 2:51 PM

  In reply to Ray Emerson:

  Hello Ray -

  I am at v12.3.1 -  When I look under IO Network/CIOC I do not see a print label option:

  

  Selecting Print yields:

  

  I will see if I can figure out the "export the configuration to XML and use the XSL templates under DVDATA\CharmsXsl"

  Thanks

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• Ray Emerson

  

  • 10 May 2018 3:01 PM

  In reply to SimHogan:

  Ah, I'm wrong! Just checked, and that print feature was added in 13.3. The "Print to XML" menu option is there, though, so that will at least get you into Excel.

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• SimHogan

  

  • 10 May 2018 3:17 PM

  In reply to Ray Emerson:

  Thanks for the update. So far:
  I've done a test export to xml.
  I have found the xsl templates.
  
  Update - found a youtube on importing xml using xsl in excel.

  My project begins..

  Is there a hotfix for 12.3.1 that will allow the Print Label function?

  
  Thanks

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• Ray Emerson

  

  • 10 May 2018 3:41 PM

  In reply to SimHogan:

  Cool! I just took the XML and opened directly in Excel (as an XML table without a stylesheet). All the data's there, and should just be a matter of filtering from this. Example of this below (just using XML, not the XSL templates).

  

  Not aware of a hotfix for 12.x. I recall that this menu option was brought in as a UDEP (User-Driven Enhancement) improvement for 13.x. 

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• Andre Dicaire

  

  • 11 May 2018 11:19 PM

  I worked on an Excel tool that takes the XML file and has a print formatted sheet that I populated from the sheet containing the XML. By reading a new XML export, the print sheet automatically pulled the desired fields and printed to card stock. It was relatively easy. The hardest part was deciding on how many labels to layout. In the end, we laid out four Channel Labels and Baseplate labels per page.
  
  We don't use it now that we have the print label in v13.

  Andre Dicaire

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