Hi All,

I have a certificate type of PP document which includes a list of serial numbers that is usually on one data page. Unfortunately, the serial numbers are kind of grouped together in 3 rows with a maximum of about 15 lines per row, as they were purposely formatted to print on the certificate.

Recently, I was asked if we could add a "yellow tag" page to the Document, which replaces a manual process with entry on an Excel template. The yellow tag page is 3-up and would basically be one for one with the serial numbers that are in the data file (one serial number per yellow tag), along with containing the part number, Qty, and two dates (Replace By Date and MFG Date). Good news is that the data contains a quantity, which matches to the number of serial numbers.

My main question is, could the n-up object loop through a PressTalk string array containing the serial numbers, which I would programmatically populate by parsing the serial numbers from the data file? Before I got too far with parsing the serial numbers to an array, I figured I should ask if it's possible, since I don't have a lot of experience with using the N-Up object (it's been a long time since my last usage).

If that option doesn't sound possible, do you have any recommendations on how I should approach the task?

Based on any feedback suggestions, my alternative approach will utilize PP Workflow to print the current form as it normally does, but have a secondary process with a script that will reformat the serial numbers in the data to appear on individual lines with CRLFFF control characters after each line to simulate separate data pages. I'm thinking that a new form with the N-UP object should definitely be able to handle data in that format. This is a lot more work and overhead though.

Below is an example of the captured print data with the format of the serial numbers.


Thank you.