Testing Custom Labels with no Product in stock

[jon-kyme2]

Following on from @phil-halls issue here:

Printing a test Stock Label

I’m sure this is a PICNIC issue but I am setting Breww up so all is new. I want to create custom templates for our Stock Labels, overprinting thermally onto branded labels with a white print area. I have set up a custom template to see how it looks and send off to our printers but I just can’t test print it. From: Custom stock template labels Page I click: View a Test PDF There is a drop-down titled: ‘Product to test labels with’ but it is empty so I can’t select anything. Have I misu…

It’s currently not possible to test a custom Stock Label if we have no products in stock. This is obviously a problem if we’re a new business that doesn’t have any stock, needs to use a custom template, and needs to test it before racking anything.

Breww should support testing these templates without requiring products be in stock.
Maybe there should be a dummy, pre-populated option (in addition to actual stock) for testing.

[matt-cousins]

Thanks, Jon. We’ve been able to tweak this to make it possible to test a label before a racking/packaging has been performed.

Thanks for the great suggestion!

[jon-kyme2]

That’s excellent. I hope @phil-halls has seen this.

[phil-halls]

Great work - this makes life a lot easier