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The Data Source wizard automatically sets up the symbology's individual fields or sections as separate data sources. Each data source that you create in BarTender is correctly formatted with settings, such as data validation or number of allowable characters, that help the raw data conform to the symbology's specifications.

All newly generated data sources can be edited even though they are generated to conform as much as possible to the symbology's specifications.

The following options are available.

Data Source

• Get Data From Database: Specifies that the data that the barcode contains is imported from a database.

• Enable Data Entry Controls: Secifies that the user is prompted for the barcode's data when a print job is run.

Required Primary Message Fields(Available only for the MaxiCode symbology.)

These codes are required when you use MaxiCode. To access these fields, set the Mode option to Structured Carrier Message: 2.

• Postal Code: Specifies the type of postal code that is required by your MaxiCode barcode.

• Country Code: Specifies the country code that is encoded into your MaxiCode barcode. This field is read-only.

• Class of Service: Specifies the class of service. This code is required by the MaxiCode Primary Message and is not changeable. This field is read-only.

Optional Secondary Message Fields (Available only for the MaxiCode symbology.)

When Mode is set to Structured Carrier Message: 2 or Structured Carrier Message: 3, you can add optional fields as data sources to your MaxiCode barcode. To insert a field, click to select the check box for the field that you want to include.

Supported Symbologies

• Australia Post 4-State Customer Code

• GS1 Composite

• GS1 DataBar (RSS)

• USPS Intelligent Mail (4-State Customer Code)

• Japanese Post 4-State Customer Code

• KIX 4-State Customer Code

• MaxiCode

• Royal Mail 4-State Customer Code