Additional Barcode Simplex and Duplex Issues

OL Connect Professional General
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Hi Guys

Have this issue doing a barcode, originally the team at OL setup this basic output creation for me to enable it.

It comes as 4 different components inside the additional content section

1:

S${format.formatNumber(document.sequence.job,‘000000’)}${format.formatNumber(document.count.pages,‘00’)}

Condition: (document.count.pages==1) && (page.nr == 1)

2:

M${format.formatNumber(document.sequence.job,‘000000’)}${format.formatNumber(document.count.pages,‘00’)}

Condition: document.count.pages>1 && page.nr == document.count.pages

3:

I${format.formatNumber(document.sequence.job,‘000000’)}${format.formatNumber(page.nr-1,‘00’)}

Condition: (document.count.pages>1) && (page.nr < document.count.pages)&&(page.nr!=1)

4:

L${format.formatNumber(document.sequence.job,‘000000’)}

Condition: (document.count.pages>1) && (page.nr == 1)

Now the issue is, it works fine for simplex printing, but as soon as it becomes a duplex, it will print both on the front and the back, is there something I can do to make it only add the barcode and it keeps the above sequence only on front facing pages… eg page 1, Page 3,

Many Thanks

Best Regards

Jason

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Well, first thing, you’re probably going to have to change out some of the page/pages references for sheet/sheets. So instead of counting sides of the paper (pages) you’re counting whole sheets of paper instead.

I${format.formatNumber(document.sequence.job,‘000000’)}${format.formatNumber(sheet.nr-1,‘00’)}

Finally, in your conditions, you could add that it must also be the front (or back) of the page for it to allow it to print:

(document.count.sheets>1) && (sheet.nr == 1) && (page.front)

or

(document.count.sheets>1) && (sheet.nr == 1) && (page.back)

This is just meant to give you a rough idea of how to do this. You’ll have to experiment a bit and test to make sure you’re getting the results that you’re after.

You could even keep your rules in place and add conditions to them to check for simplex/duplex to apply the right sets of rules. You’d use sheet.duplex or sheet.simplex for this.

You’ll find many more variables you can make use of here as well: PReS Connect 2018.1 User Guide