User's Manual

D-26 Customizing the DecisioNet System
PLU number (this option is mutually exclusive with
‘-remove’)
-R1
Displays current orphan EPL report
-R2
Displays current de-assigned EPL report
-m<message>
Sends a promotional message to the EPL. The format
of <message> is reg1/reg2/reg3 where regX is the text
that should be displayed in promotional register X. If
there are any spaces in any of the messages, then
enclose the entire message in quotations (“”).
Examples:
• Display the currently orphaned EPL report.
esorphan -R1
• Display the currently orphaned EPL report and de-assign all
orphaned tags from their associated PLU#.
esorphan -remove -R1
• Display the currently orphaned EPL report, send a promotional
message of all blanks to every orphaned EPL, and remove from
EPL table.
esorphan -remove -m” “ -R1
• Display the currently orphaned EPL report and delete from EPL
table all de-assigned EPLs.
esorphan -purge -R1
In a Windows NT system, modify the orphanrpt.bat file in the
\epl\bin directory.
@echo off
rem
rem This batch file creates an orphan report
rem
esorphan -R1 -R2 > %TEMP%\orphan.rpt
"%SystemDrive%\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad" %TEMP%\orphan.rpt
del %TEMP%\orphan.rpt