The «Settings» tab: host, orders folder, routes

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The “Settings” tab gathers what you change from the program window: the computer name, the orders folder, start-up behaviour and the copy routes to machine folders. Changes take effect after the “Save Settings” button — no restart is needed.

What is not on the tab: key, address, interval

There are no “API key” or “API address” fields on the tab. The firm key (KEY), the server address (API_URL) and the polling interval (every_minutes) live in the config_gui.txt file next to the program. The server fills them in itself when you download the archive from the admin panel, so they are usually left alone.

  • If the key is empty, the “Start” button on “Main” shows the message “API key is not set” — put KEY into the file and restart the program.
  • If the server asks to send requests to a different address, a red bar appears on “Main” with the “Use this address” button — it writes the new API_URL into the file itself.
  • The polling interval is at least three minutes and is changed only in the file.

Work parameters

  • “Host name” — how this computer introduces itself to the server. It appears in label printing reports. If the program runs on several PCs, give them different names, otherwise the reports cannot tell them apart.
  • “Orders folder” — where unpacked orders are stored, C:\orders by default. The “Browse...” button opens the folder picker. Orders already downloaded to the old path will not move by themselves: move them together with the database file, otherwise the program treats them as foreign.

Start-up settings

  • “Auto-start sync on application launch” — the program starts polling the server right away, without pressing “Start”.
  • “Minimize to taskbar on startup” — the window goes straight to the taskbar. Handy for a shop-floor computer.

Both boxes are ticked by default.

Folder Synchronization

A table of routes with the columns “Source”, “Destination”, “Type”. Above it is a short hint: only files whose path contains the order number are copied; the “folder” type keeps subfolders, “file” puts everything into one folder; a file of the same size is not copied again.

  • “Add”, “Edit”, “Delete” — edit the routes without touching the file by hand.
  • “Compare folders” — opens the window that checks what has already been copied to the machines.

Details — Route rules and The “Compare folders” window.

Important: on saving, the synchronize_folders.txt file is rewritten completely, and your comments in it are lost. If you need the comments, edit the file in Notepad.

Language and conversion are elsewhere

The interface language is switched with the “Language:” list in the window header; after switching, the interface is rebuilt completely. Format boxes, the processing mode and the number of parallel threads are on the “Conversion” tab; the quick boxes “Convert cutting SVG to PNG/EMF” and “Convert labels to PDF” are also on “Main”.

The “Save Settings” button

Writes to config_gui.txt everything that is changed from the window: the orders folder, host name, language, start-up boxes and conversion settings. Routes go to synchronize_folders.txt. There is no separate “Open configuration file” button — open the file in Notepad from the program folder; settings that are not in the window, such as the path length limit, live there too.

Where these files physically are — Where the program files are.

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