VSys One: Volunteer Management Software

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Rendered Barcodes

VSys can render text as a barcode within a letter and do this without requiring barcode "fonts" installed. To do this in a letter template, bracket the data to be converted to barcode with "barcode[[" at the beginning and "]]" at the end. For example,

When the letter template is merged, the field Code will be rendered as a Code128 barcode with default dimensions.

You can specify the type, width and height of the generated barcode as well. Do this by putting the barcode's parameters in parenthesis: first the barcode type, then its width in pixels, then its height in pixels. Omitting any of these parameters will cause the barcode to use default values. For example:

Will render the field Code as a Code 128 barcode 300px x 100px in size.

Possible barcode types are

Note that some barcode types require certain types of data, e.g. you can't render "George" in Code39 since that encoding only supports numbers.

See Also

Letter Templates

Letter Template Editor

Sub-letters

Assignment Calendar Sub-letter

Suggested Jobs Sub-Letter

Combined Calendar Sub-letter

Letter Template Properties

Letter Template Groups

Alternate Language Variants

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