Rock U - Check-In - Check-in - Labels

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Okay. So let's take a minute and talk about labels within check-in. So labels are very customizable. You can do lots of great things with labels. Let's look take a look at how we would do that. Okay. So out of the box, we have, several different labels that ship. Now, these, four labels at the top here actually, or at least these two top ones are actually the same label. This one has special fonts, little icons that display certain things Whereas the one to the right are just have text that represents the same thing. So birthday present, b for birthday. The Friday tells you when the birthday is. This is gonna say there's a birthday coming in the in the in the in the next week. And then you can actually say when. First time visitor, have a star or an f. And then down here, the allergies and the legal have different, icons also. Now to be able to get these icons, you actually have to install a special font onto your Zebra printer. And so that's an extra step, so a little extra configuration. The directions and the manual walks you through that that process. But it it definitely is something you have to go to each printer and configure. Okay. So then down below we have a notes, label and then also a child pickup label. And another label that ships, this is more for checking in for maybe a volunteer is just a a name tag. So you can print this and then put this on and and that's serves as your name tag. Now that serve basically serves two purposes. A, it gives you a name tag, but b, it also helps, your staff, make sure that all the volunteers are checking in because if they don't have their name tag on, then it's likely that they did not check-in. So these ones that ship out of the box, again, you can configure, what they look . You can add your logo and do a lot of, cool things. So let's keep looking at some of the configurations on that. Okay. So you'll create and define your your labels under admin tools, check-in labels. And this is where you'll go ahead and create new labels. Now when you go to create them, you basically give them a file name and a description and then you have to upload this special z p l file and that's what's gonna define how that label looks. Now Zebra ships with a ZPL designer that you can download. The link to that is in the the manuals and that allows you to shift these fields around. So you might start with just taking some of the the ones that ship with Core, download them, modify them, and then upload them and not replacing the ones from Core but, making your own copies. Now, those labels also have a series of of merge codes and that's what allows us to push in, data dynamically to them. And so here, we're just kind of matching up what the merge code is inside the label in the ZPL to the defined merge field that we've already configured. And I'll show you where those are configured here in a second. Okay. And then also you can determine whether this label is printed for each person or for each family. Okay. So this is gonna be where you're gonna be configuring and and setting up your label. Now oftentimes, it's it's nice to kind of see these labels and kind of see where things are. And so at the bottom of that screen is edit label and that brings you over to this screen. And over here, it's gonna actually show you that ZPL code and, that's actually some pretty scary looking stuff and, , don't be overwhelmed by that. We don't expect you to come in here and understand what all these little codes are. But you'd be surprised if you spend just a little bit of time looking. It's not it's not as crazy as it looks at first glance. But over here, we're actually showing you a approximate view of what that label is gonna look . Okay? So that's not perfect. When it goes through the printer, that's gonna be that's gonna be exactly what it's gonna look . But we're trying to give you the best case of what that is and it's pretty accurate. But above it, within the label viewer, you needed to help help us determine what size label it is and and what the print density might be. So and you can go over here if you want. You can edit this and then hit re hit redraw and it'll it'll update that. Also, from here too, you can pick a a device that's a check-in label, printer that's that's been defined in Rock and you can actually print it. And that would be the final check. So the z print the Zebra print designers where you really wanna start with this and this is kind of where you do your fine tuning. And this is actually really helpful to know too, where are those merge codes? how do I know what five is? Well, come in here, I can easily see where the merge code five is. Okay. So we talked about different merge codes and merge fields that you can have in Rock for your labels. And those will be configured under admin tools, check-in, label, merge fields. Okay. So if you're kind of noticing this, it's actually just a defined type and these are the defined values. We've just kind of simplified how you get to it by putting it under check-in. So for the most part, these are gonna be the standard ones. You you shouldn't have to add ones to this. But if you would to, the best thing you can do is just kinda scroll through the list and look at the different lava that, puts out the information onto the label and just kind of craft it from one of these that already exists. But for the most part, I would strongly urge you not to go ahead and and start editing these. In fact, lot of them, are system ones that won't let you be deleted. But, use them as a template. Don't modify them unless you really know what you're doing. And that's the configuration of labels within Rock.