Custom template
Before using this tab, you will need to use the 'Select database'
tab to collect information from your database.
The idea of a custom template is that you add text labels and
pictures, which are then mailmerged with your database:

The picture above shows a custom template. The main picture
area, that says 'Database PICTURE filed <PICTURENAMELARGE> is a picture
control that has been linked to the PICTURE NAME LARGE field of a particular
database table. This field in that database contains the name
and location of a picture file of each product.
The <DESCRIPTION1> label in the above picture is a Text Label control which
the <DESCRIPTION1> field from this database selected. When mailmerged,
this will collect the text information of the product description.
The QR code is linked directly to a unique website address field for each
product.
After mailmerging, with one of our databases, you can see the image and text:
(Thank you to StarBoard for the use of their images).
Getting started
The quickest way to get started is to use the Template Wizard which gives
template examples. There are designed to create still pictures
but you can then replace sample pictures and text with field names from your
database. We used the following template as starting point for the
examples above:
and then when editing the template, we double clicked the main picture and
used the 'Select database field' button:
to select a field that contained the names of pictures:
We did the same wit the 'YOUR LOGO' text label, resized it and
removed some of the controls we didn't need, and then also inserted a
Barcode/QR code control.
The only final stage that was needed was to specify where the pictures used
where physically located. You will notice from the above image, that
on the 1st record in this database table, then 'PictureNameLarge' field
contains 'hitachi_cam_wall.jpg'. We had to use the 'Template
media' tab to tell Repeat Signage where the pictures were actually located:
Help and support
We are happy to help you connect your database to Repeat Signage and create
custom templates. Please email us as
support@repeatsoftware.com
if you require any help.