Print Job Text File Log Setup Dialog

Log File Options

• Log File Folder: Specifies the directory where log files are saved. To specify a directory, enter the folder path, or click Browse to navigate to the folder location that you want.

• Organization: Specifies how log files are created and named.

  • One File: Specifies that all print job logs are appended to a single log file for all print jobs.

  • By Document File Name: Specifies that the log file is saved according to the name of the printed document.

  • By Date: Specifies that all print job logs are saved according to the system date.

  • Separate Files: Specifies that separate log files are created for each print job according to the name of the printed document.

• Output Type: Specifies the format for the log files.

  • Tab Delimited: Specifies that tabs separate the data that is contained in the log file.

  • Comma Delimited: Specifies that commas separate the data that is contained in the log file.

  • Quote and Comma Delimited: Specifies that quotation marks and commas separate the data that is contained in the log file.

  • HTML Delimited: Specifies that the log file is saved by using HTML format. You can use an Internet browser to view this file.

• Encoding: Specifies the character set of the log file.

Log Files

• View: Opens the Open File dialog so that you can open a previously generated log file in the default text editor (for text files) or your web browser (for HTML).

• View Last: Opens the last log file that was created by the last print job.

• Delete All: Deletes all .txt and .htm files that are located in the folder that is specified in the Log File Folder option.

The Delete All option deletes all files of these types. If you have other files of these types in the specified folder, do not use this option to delete them. Instead, use My Computer or Windows Explorer.

Use the options on the Header, Per Printed Item, and Footer tabs to specify the information that you want to be saved to the log file and in what area of the log file you want it to be saved.

For example, you might want to save the current date to the header of the log file and the print time of each printed item. To do this, click to select the Date (Long Format) option on the Header tab, and then click to select the Start Time option on the Per Printed Item tab. The options that you select are displayed in the Sample Log File area at the bottom of the dialog.

The options that are available for logging information to the header and footer of the log file and for each printed item are described in the following table.

Data to Log	Description	Header	Per Printed Item	Footer
Bottommost Separator Line	Includes a line to mark the end of the entire log entry.			✔
Blank Line	Includes a blank line to mark the end of the entire log entry.			✔
Copies	Includes the number that is specified for the Copies option of the Print dialog.	✔	✔	✔
Computer Name	Includes the name of the computer that BarTender was running on.	✔	✔	✔
Database File Name	Includes the name of the database file from which data was read if BarTender was connected to a database file at the time that the print job was run.	✔	✔	✔
Date (Long Format	Includes the current system date when the item was printed. The month and year are spelled out (for example, January 1, 2019).		✔
Date (Short Format	Includes the numeric equivalent of the current system date when the item was printed (for example, 1/1/19).		✔
Document Name	Includes the file name of the document that was printed.	✔	✔	✔
End Time	Includes the system time when the job finished printing by using the time format that is specified in the regional settings.			✔
End Date (Long Format	Includes the date when the job finished printing. The month and year are spelled out (for example, January 1, 2019).			✔
End Date (Short Format)	Includes the numeric equivalent of the date when the job finished (for example, 1/1/19).			✔
Item Height	Includes the height of the printed items as specified in the Page Setup dialog.	✔	✔	✔
Item Width	Includes the width of the printed items as specified in the Page Setup dialog.	✔	✔	✔
Item Number	Includes the sequential number for the items that were printed.		✔
Log File Name	Includes the name of the log file.	✔	✔	✔
Number of Columns	Includes the number of columns on a single page of stock as specified in the Columns option, which is located on the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog.	✔	✔	✔
Number of Items Printed	Includes the total number of items that were printed.			✔
Number of Rows	Includes the number of rows on a single page of stock as specified in the Rows option, which is located on the Layout tab of the Page Setup dialog.	✔	✔	✔
Per Template Field Names	Includes a line that has the field number or data source names as specified on the Data Source tab of the Data Sources property page.	✔
Printer Name	Includes the name of the printer on which the items were printed.	✔	✔	✔
Print Job Name	Includes the name of the print job, if one is assigned.	✔	✔	✔
Serial Numbers	Includes the number that was specified for the Serial Numbers option of the Print dialog.	✔	✔	✔
Separator Line	Enters a line below the header to separate the text from the list of data that was printed per item.	✔		✔
Start Time	Includes the system time when the job started printing by using the time format that is specified in the regional settings.	✔	✔	✔
Start Date (Long Format)	Includes the date when the job started printing. The month and year are spelled out (for example, January 1, 2019).	✔	✔	✔
Start Date (Short Format)	Includes the numeric equivalent of the date when the job started printing (for example, 1/1/19).	✔	✔	✔
Time	Includes the system time when the item was printed by using the time format that is specified in the regional settings.		✔
Topmost Separator Line	Includes a line to mark the beginning of the entire log entry.	✔
User Name	Includes the user name of the person who is running BarTender.	✔	✔	✔

On the Per Printed Item tab, there is an additional option for Data Sources to Log. This option specifies whether the data that is contained in objects on the template should be included with the data in the log file.