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demo kit are supplied without mounting clips. Please contact
Opticon for more information on the mounting possibilities of the ESLs to your shelves. For
simple demonstration purposes with small amounts of ESLs one might also consider using
double sided foam tape as a temporarily solution.
3.1.4 Installing the Optional Barcode Terminal
The optional barcode terminal can be used to link an ESL (using its unique MAC addresses) to
any type of product, objects or location as long as it has a unique identifier it can be linked with.
Example of unique identifiers include: an EAN-barcode; a serial number; a specific position or
location; a room number, etc.
More information on how to set up the barcode terminal can be found in section 5.7.11.
3.2 Linking a Back Office System to the ESL Server
The ESL server application is triggered by CSV files that are being placed in the specified
Input
Folder
by the back office. Using a shared folder it
ʼ
s possible to allow external access by the back
office from anywhere in the world.
If the back office link to the ESL system is not yet available, then it
ʼ
s also possible to manually
place (and rename) some CSV files in the
Input folder
for demonstration purposes and testing.
(See section 5.1).
See chapter 2 for information about on setting up the back office system.
3.3 Resetting the ESL System
After installing and configuring all the components listed in this chapter, it will be necessary to
reset the complete ESL system, since on start-up the ESL server will already have parsed the
example database file, which will have to be replaced with your own CSV export.
Note: if the field sequence of your CSV export is ever changed, it will be necessary to reset the
ESL system by deleting the existing product database. However, do NOT delete the link database
(step 3) because otherwise you will have to manually link all ESLs again using the optional
barcode terminal. The existing database files can also be replaced remotely by the back office, by
placing a complete database CSV file in the
ʻ
Input folder
ʼ
that contains only empty modification
fields. (See section 4.1).
To reset the ESL system manually, the following steps have to be taken:
1.
If still present, delete the sample database file from the
Input folder
of your installation
(
ProductData_1.csv
). If the sample database file has already been moved to the
Processed
folder, then it
ʼ
s not mandatory to delete it.
