Print templates
TouchTil prints using templates for the layout of what is being printed. This allows a number of “elements” to be available for printing, so that graphics and fancy fonts, lines, shapes, etc may be included on printed material. The templates may be edited by pushing the relevant Design button in the Setup & Maintenance screen; this displays the designer for the template.
Text blocks, dates, pictures, lines, shapes and barcodes may be added to the template by choosing Add Element from the Edit menu – or using one of the toolbar buttons shown on the designer. Any element may be edited by right-clicking on the element and selecting one of the options from the pop-up menu displayed. In many cases text blocks will contain just the text you enter into the Properties dialog. However, there are a few “special code tags” that may be used as a shorthand for text that may appear in several templates.
The text element containing Dunbeath Kebab in the screen shot below contains one of these tags. Right click on the element in the sample Receipt Design and choose Properties and you will see that instead of the words “Dunbeath Kebab” the element actually contain %myname%.
Similarly the text block contain the address and phone number is actually the tag %myaddr%. The other commonly used tags are:
%code% the reference number code for a sale or order as provided either automatically or entered manually on the order screen
%addr% a customer’s delivery address as entered in the Delivery/Notes dialog from the order screen.
Receipts