StickIt 3.2 Release Notes

Bug Fix: Namespaced fields starting with "R"

Fixed an issue where merge fields that included a namespace and started with the letter "R" (ex: MVC__Retail_Price__c) were being incorrectly evaluated in security checks, causing label generation to fail.

Support for Fractional Label Quantities

This new feature is useful for customers who are generating and printing labels with sequence numbers where the total number of units is fractional. For example: John's Apple Farm sells a customer 3 1/2 bushels of apples and must put a label on each bushel. Previously, if a quantity of 3.5 was provided StickIt would round down and print only 3 labels. This was problematic as 4 labels were needed in this case. As a workaround, a user could manually enter a quantity of 4 and receive a set of labels sequenced as 1 of 4, 2 of 4, etc.

Close! The customer wasn't actually receiving 4 bushels of apples, causing some confusion. In this release, StickIt rounds print quantities up and maintains the fractional value for the final label in the sequence. Now, when John prints labels for 3.5 bushels of apples he'll receive 4 labels with a sequence of 1 of 3.5, 2 of 3.5, 3 of 3.5, 3.5 of 3.5.

Define a Default Printer and Print Speed

The StickIt Defaults dialog now includes options for selecting a default printer and print speed (quality). This is useful when a user has more than one DYMO label printer connected to their computer or simply wishes to use a print speed other than "Auto" by default.

"StickIt User" Permission Set

Ever fumbled around with profile updates to try to figure out what baseline system permissions a user needed in order to launch StickIt? StickIt now includes a permission set labeled StickIt User that defines all of the permissions needed to use StickIt's out-of-the-box features. Simply assign users to the StickIt User permission set and get on with the rest of your implementation!

Dynamic Push Topics for Automation Station

The default behavior of the StickIt Automation Station is that it receives a message for every new StickIt Queue entry that is created and then decides based on the page configuration whether to keep or discard the message. Users who operate multiple print locations may have experienced performance related or other issues during peak times as a result of irrelevant jobs flooding the page, only to ultimately be discarded.

In this release of StickIt, users may now create their own collection of Push Topics to define which records trigger a message across the wire. Now, instead of the Automation Station subscribing to a single Push Topic and potentially getting flooded with labels that are irrelevant, each instance of the Automation Station can subscribe to a unique Push Topic.

Inform the Automation Station to listen to a specific Push Topic with the URL parameter pushTopic.

• Ex: /apex/TSS_StickIt_MR1__StickIt_Automation_Station?pushTopic=MY_CUSTOM_TOPIC

Blank Line Suppression

Have you ever set up a perfectly formatted label template only to have blank merge fields leave awkward gaps between text? With this release, merge fields support a new modifier that will suppress blank lines left as a result of empty merge values.

To implement, surround your label template merge fields with the following syntax: ~: : ~

Example:

{FirstName} {LastName}

~:{Title}:~

{Email}

Result when Title merge field has a value:

Jane Doe

President

j.doe@acme.com

Result when Title merge field does not have a value:

Jane Doe

j.doe@acme.com

Specify Print Quantities within Automation Station

Automation Station did not previously allow for user supplied input to control the number of labels to be printed. In this release, the Automation Station includes a Quantity input that can be adjusted to control the number of copies of any given label that are printed.

For label templates that leverage dynamic print quantities via the PRINT_QTY text area, Automation Station will automatically populate the quantity input with the PRINT_QTY value. Any updates to the quantity input will also update the label template text area and label preview accordingly.