User's Manual

Customizing the DecisioNet System D-25
Orphan Tag Report
In a Windows NT environment, this report is initiated from the EPL
Applications Program Group. In either UNIX environment, the report
must be initiated from the command line. The Orphan Tag Report
provides information about SmarTalkers that have become
disassociated from their PLU items. This can be the result of the
following situation:
• Removing a PLU from the PLU table and not removing or purging
the associated SmarTalker tag from the EPL table.
The actual report has two sections. The first section lists the number of
orphaned tags and the number of orphaned tags de-assigned. The
second section lists number of de-assigned tags and number of de-
assigned tags purged. Additional information in the first section
includes the orphaned tag’s serial number, location, PLU number, and
associated pricing and promotional display data. The second section
identifies the de-assigned tag’s serial number and location.
The two sections in the default report result from DesicioNet using the
esorphan script R1 and R2 options in the orphanrpt.bat file when the
Orphan Tag Report is initiated on a Windows NT system. Modify the
batch file meet your system requirements
In a UNIX environment run the esorphan program from a command
line with the desired options. The esorphan syntax and options are as
follows:
Syntax esorphan [-vrp?] [-R<1:2>] [-m<message>]
where:
-?
Displays release information and available options
-v
Verbose mode: displays messages to standard output
-r
Disassociates orphaned EPL from PLU number in the
EPL table (this option is mutually exclusive with
‘-purge’)
-p
Deletes each EPL record that is not associated with a