Quick Start Guide
Table Of Contents
- [Introduction]
- 1 Electronic Shelf Labeling – A brief introduction
- 2 The G1 label family
- 3 What’s in your Smart Box?
- [Getting Started]
- 1 Latest Software and Documentation
- 2 Install software
- 3 Start Server and Client
- 4 Connect and configure Access Point AP-2010
- 5 Setup Security
- 6 Register labels
- 7 Start tagging
- 8 Integration
- [Troubleshooting]
- 1 FAQ
- 1.1 Running the ESL Server as a background service
- 1.2 Where can I find the license file for my SmartBox?
- 1.3 Deleting the demo articles
- 1.4 Establish a network configuration when no DHCP is available – Step by step
- 1.5 AP discovering with Bonjour Services
- 1.6 What can I do if the Status LED of the AP-2010 access point doesn’t turn blue?
- 1.7 Labels don’t come online
- 1.8 The encryption does not work
- 1.9 Unlocking labels
- 1.10 Starting Java applications
- 1.11 Encoding problems
- 1.12 Further documentation
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7.5 Templates
The template is used to specify the fields, which should be rendered into the image. The
ESLServer can handle multiple templates.
7.5.1 General information about templates
The image rendering process is based on XSL (EXtensible Stylesheet Language) templates. The
individual image for the label is then generated by applying the template to a XML, which is
based on the properties of the label and is expanded by a custom XML from the user.
The following steps are executed when processing a template:
l Generating a record XML based on the label/task information and custom information
provided by the user
l Applying the template (XSL) on the generated record XML. This results in a document con-
taining the fields, specified in this reference and values referenced from the XML
l Rendering the image (*.PNG) based on the previous output
FIGURE 1-29: Input and result of the rendering process
7.5.2 Template Editor
In order to use our rendering engine you must know our template language which is basically
XSL. We do also have a Template Editor with live preview, but you need a little bit time to setup
everything and get familiar with it. Therefore we suggest to send pre-rendered images to labels
(right-click on a label -> send image) which you can create with every image manipulation
software you want (e.g. Gimp, Photoshop, Paint, …). You can even take some pre-rendered
images from us for each label type with the correct resolution as a template – you’ll find some in
the client’s directory under data/images.