[feature request] No method to set "how many" on label instance

[c3kkos]

Hello there.

I noticed there is no way to tell glabel to iterate on printing the same label X times.

Let me show an example.

CASE:
you have a populated spreadsheet with products. (eg. a BOM from a CAD/CAM software.)

you have rows of data with tons of colums; the ones that interests me are IDs and Quantity, so let's strip all of them but those two.

let's assume those rows:

ID - QTY
RABBIT - 10
HORSE - 2
FROG - 50

if i want to print 10 labels for RABBITS, 2 for HORSES and 50 for FROGS i have to manually create 10,2 and 50 rows with matching names.

We sure need to bind that QTY value to printing quantity, the same way we do assign a text to its ${MERGED_DATA}

[myrmark]

How are you printing these labels? Doesn't the glabels-batch-qt command solve this issue?

[c3kkos]

sorry, I'm using the gui, not the batch executable.

The feature i'm talking about, it was present in "BarTender" a paid labeling software.

Edit:

i double-checked "man glabels-batch-qt"

and i can confirm that there is no mechanism to instruct glabel to iterate X time a label record.

You can:

   -c <n>, --copies <n>
          Set number of copies to <n>. (Default=1)

given a .glabels project file,

but that generate a whole copy of the project, it has no control over the single label creation.

You must have csv like this:
"
RABBIT
RABBIT
RABBIT
"
to have 3 "rabbit" labels

when you could just have:

"
RABBIT,3
"
to print 3 identical labels, given the second column parameter (to be properly assigned, to a special "QTY_VALUE", new method)