Introduction
The console MailUp v8.3 and lateroffers gives you the possibility ability to generate a barcode and associate it with a recipient fieldof the console. This functionis useful feature comes in handy when you want to put in a newsletter a barcode such as a discount or a promotion tied to a productinsert into an email message a unique discount or promotion code.
The frontend page (barcode.aspx) will render and print out a barcode image, starting from a numeric/alpha numeric sequence dynamically retrieved upon built based on "IdOptin" and "Hash" arguments passed to the page.
This page requires the numeric sequence to be previously stored in one of the personal information fields in order to run. This requirement was introduced in order to prevent fraud URL usage or any kind of exploitation of the service.
Barcode.aspx resides in the "frontend" root of each 8.3 console or later version and does not store or save any of the rendered barcode images on the "console" storage disk so that the server burden will be kept at its lowest.
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When viewed from your console's rad editor, the barcode will be displayed with a default value. |
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| Don't' forget to replace <consolehost> with the actual URL of you MailUp console and fill the recipient field LatestShippedOrderID with a real barcode numeric value ( for symbology 14 in the above snippet you can fill it using any number of even length ). |
Output sample
Below a sample of Interleaved 2 of 5 rendered from a 14 digits sequence
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9. Now it's time to fill the Image tag "src "property with the actual barcode module path : barcode image path must always display an absolute path : <img src="PASTE HERE YOUR BARCODE URL PREVIOUSLY COPIED FROM NOTEPAD" />
10. Click on Save. Now you should be seeing the barcode rendered in the preview window as below
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