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The integration to Cloud Print Service seamlessly combines data from Business Central, Mobile WMS with an online label designer.

Key features

• Label layout is handled by Cloud Print Service. A complex task not suited for ERP
• Design your custom labels using WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)-designer

• Plug-n-play installation
• Customization of data through Mobile WMS extension API

Prerequisites

• An active subscription with Cloud Print Service
• Zebra Label printer connected via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to mobile devices running Mobile WMS

Cloud Print Service Terminology

Label Template

• Cloud Print Service design of a Label
• Templates have a Name and a URL

Request

• XML Request to Cloud Print Service containing the data to print a label.

Print Dataset
Basic key-value format

• The Cloud Print Service request contains mainly the dataset
• Customizable so you can add/change values to the dataset
• The dataset can include:
  • Context (Order, OrderLine, Lookup-result etc.)
  • Collected steps
  • Customized data. See Print Label and Cloud Print for examples

Standard Template Designs

The system comes with Standard Label Designs.

Designs can easily be changed/customized by you, using the online designer.

Standard Template Handlers

Each standard label has a “template handler”, this can be used if you create your own version of a template, but want to re-use the data processing and Step-collection of a standard template.

Handlers makes it easy to reuse the existing standard logic and data handling for your own templates.

Data customization 

Data can easily be changed through extension/customization:

• Additional values can also be collected by adding new steps
• or you can change existing steps

See Print Label and Cloud Print for examples

The process of printing a label

This examples outlines how the events involved in printing label

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1. User selects an action to print
   1. The action can be placed anywhere using mobile configuration
      
      
2. User is shown with a list of available templates
   1. Selects onetemplate
   2. Completes the steps
      
      
3. The context (Order, OrderLine, Lookup-result etc.) is converted to a Dataset
   1. Additional values are collected using “Steps” and added to the DatasetNew steps can be added, and existing changed through customization/API
      
      
4. Request is sent to Cloud Print Service
   1. Dataset is converted to Request using the "template handler”
      Any values and labels can be changed through customization/API
      
      
5. Cloud Print Service maps the values from the dataset to the template
   
   1. The mapping can be customized using the Cloud Print Service designer (optional)Cloud Print Service responds with label data corresponding with the selected label and data(ZPL)
      
      
6. Mobile prints directly to the printer using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth

Setting up Cloud Print Service in Business Central