Total Price of Items on Checkout Receipt

californiamandrillSoftware and s/w Development

Dec 13, 2013 (4 years and 4 months ago)

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Total Price of Items on
Checkout Receipt

Phil Shirley

Cuyahoga Falls Library

pshirley@cuyahogafallslibrary.org

The Situation


Levy campaign


Brian Herzog 's value calculator on
web site


www.cuyahogafallslibrary.org/

content/value
-
calculator


"You saved..." on receipts at stores


Wanted to show value of items at
time of checkout



Library Software that Can Do This


Aleph (
ExLibris
)


Evergreen


Koha


How to Intercept Output to the Printer


Alphatronics

Virtual Port Monitor
($345 site license)


alphatronics.net/AVPMon.html


Install on each PC


Create a virtual port


Send print job to a script


"Also send print job to printer?"


Also on Each PC: Perl & TCL


Perl script


Looks at each print job


Passes barcode to TCL script


Saves price from TCL script


Calculates and prints total & footer


TCL Script


Given barcode, looks up price


Issues


Can't get price for
SearchOhio

items
(could make one up)


Items with no price


Have to wait at the end (staff don't
always)


It still misses some items


Feature going away in next Millennium
release


Receipt Footer


By using the library today you saved:

$99.99

Thank you!

Technical Complications


Print monitor calls batch file


Batch file calls VBS script


VBS script calls Perl script



Print monitor creates extra files


Logon script clears extra files

DOSPrint.exe


For USB printers


Because
Alphatronics

VPM doesn't
output to USB printers



Questions?

Phil Shirley

Cuyahoga Falls Library

pshirley@cuyahogafallslibrary.org

www.cuyahogafallslibrary.org
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