VB Scripting Dialog

Sometimes you may need to perform custom data validation or data processing for an object. The VB Scripting dialog, accessible from the Transform tab of the Data Source property page, enables you to access the Script Assistant so that you can specify your own Visual Basic Script routines for these special circumstances. These scripts will run after the data is processed according to options defined on the Transform tab of the Data Source property page.

For more information, see Visual Basic Scripting in BarTender.

This topic is about using Visual Basic Script to modify an object whose data source type is embedded data, database field, date, or time. If you want a script itself to be the data source for an object, you should set the data source of the object to Visual Basic Script on the Data Source property page.

Use VB Scripting. When checked, enables Visual Basic Scripting for the selected data source.
Select an event to edit. Defines the event to modify. Options include:
- Functions and Sub[routine]s. This item is not really an event, it is simply a collection of Visual Basic Script functions and subroutines (that you write) which can be used by the scripts that you create for genuine events, such as the OnProcessData event.
- OnProcessData. During a print job, this event will occur once for every record accessed by the text, encoder, or barcode object. For each record, the event occurs after BarTender has processed the options defined on the Transform tab of the Data Source property page. The one exception: it occurs before the options defined on the Serialization dialog. Every text, encoder, or barcode object has its own OnProcessData event. For example, if you use the Number of Characters dialog to pad characters onto the end of the object's data, these characters will have already been added before any script you associate with this event executes. Accordingly, if the the script processes the data, it will operate on the new, expanded, data, not the original data. On the other hand, if the document is set to produce three serialized items for every record in a database, the event will not run three times for each of the items.
- OnPostSerialize. This event is listed only if serialization has been enabled on the Serialization dialog. It occurs once for each serialization opportunity BarTender encounters.
Edit. Opens the Script Assistant.

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