Add Assets by Generating Custom Barcodes

Add Assets by Generating Custom Barcodes

You can add assets to AssetExplorer by generating your own barcodes. You can automate code generation sequentially or generate codes manually for every asset.
  1. On the left navigation pane, select Barcode Generation.
  2. Click Add new assets by generating your own barcode(s) and follow these steps below:
Step 1: Generate codes and add assets
  1. Choose the product type and product. Click to add a new product.
  2. Select a site to be associated with the asset.
  3. Enter the location of the asset.
  4. You can choose to add the barcode as the service tag, if needed.
  5. Choose your code generation method and fill in the fields accordingly:
Sequential
Manual
Sequential method generates consecutive barcodes using the Starting From value provided by you.
  1. Enter the prefix and suffix. You can use alphanumeric or special characters as prefix or suffix.
  2. Enter the value with which the code generation must begin as the Starting From value.
  3. Specify the number of assets in the Count field. The number of codes generated is based on the count value.
If you have already added the asset by using barcode or QR codes, the count will be automatically incremented. Say you have added 25 workstations from count 1, the next time you add a workstation, the count will automatically start from 26.

  1. Add comments, if any.
  2. Click Generate barcode and add assets.
Manual method allows you to enter the values to be converted as codes manually by separating them with commas. The manual code generation form varies according to the product type selected.
  1. Enter the code values such as prefixes, numbers, or any other special characters in the order of your preference.
  2. Add comments, if any.
  3. Click Generate barcode and add assets.
 

Step 2: Check asset addition status
  1. The Asset addition status section notifies if the asset is added.
    1. If the asset addition is successful, click Continue to Print or Print Later.
    2. If the asset addition fails, descriptive messages will be displayed to explain the reason for failure. You can resolve the error displayed and try again.
  2. The assets will be stored in their respective product types.

Step 3: Print Barcodes
You can choose to print the codes to designate the codes on asset hardware.
  1. In the Print barcodes section, select the label property. Click  to add a new label property.
  2. You can preview the code in the canvas below. Unclear labels are highlighted in yellow during preview and cannot be scanned properly. You can remove unclear barcodes from being printed.
  3. Click Print.

Use Print Later to print the codes later. You can find the unprinted codes under the Unprinted Codes section on the Print Codes page.
Use Test Print to print the first row of the code label.


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