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110 Chapter 4: Creating a Protocol BioCel User Guide If You Want to Print... Then... A series of bar codes that increment, but which are not specified by a bar code data file a. b. c. Type the root text that you want in the Field text box. Click Increment. This adds the code [INC] to the root text. In the Increment Chars text box, type the number of alphanumeric characters that you want to be appended to the root text. For example if you want the series to increment from 01 type 2. If you want it to increment from 001, type 3. d. In the Starting Increment # text box, type the number that you want to be printed on the first label. e. Select either Base 36 or Base 10 depending on the increment style you prefer. Base 36 uses alphanumeric increments (0–9, A–Z). Base 10 uses numeric increments only (0–9). The field numbering in the Task Parameters toolbar is different from the field numbering in a format. The first field in a format is 0, but this corresponds to Field 1 in the Task Parameters toolbar. For more information, see ”Bar Code and HR Field Data Duplication” on page 110 below. 7. Return to step 6 and fill out another field until all required fields are completed. If you enter information in a field that does not exist in the format you have chosen, the information is ignored. 8. Return to step 2 and define labels to put on other sides of plate. Bar Code and HR Field Data Duplication It is common practice to follow a bar code field with a human readable field that has the same information. The following table shows an example of how you can set this up. Format Field VWorks Field Field Type VWorks Field Contents Field 0 Field 1 Code 39 Run1 Field 1 Field 2 Human readable Run1 Field 0 of the selected format (Format Field column) is a bar code field. Field 1 of the selected format is a human readable text field. The same text is typed into Field 1 and Field 2 of the VWorks Task Parameters toolbar, and this produces a bar code label with a bar code in position 1 and the same information as text in position 2.
