Vacation Pack Labels

Vacation pack labels can be used to manage vac packs (newspapers kept by the carrier or DM while the subscriber is on vacation). The labels, one for each subscriber receiving a vac pack, can be given to carriers to remind them to hold the vac pack subscriptions.

Because the format of vac pack labels differs from newspaper to newspaper, Circulation gives you two options for printing the labels (defined in Business Rules):

• The labels can be generated via PostWare, according to the label design you set up. Business Rules determine whether PostWare is used to print vac pack labels and, if so, the name of the job file for vac packs.

• Circulation can create an ASCII file to be imported into another application, such as a word processing program, and then printed. The ASCII file will be called vacpac.d and will be located in /dti/exchange/cm. See Appendix B in the User Manual for the file format.

To produce vac pack labels:

• Select Vacation Pack Labels from the Account menu.

  
• Click Add and complete the following fields.

  Field	Type	What to enter
  PRODUCT	setup	Enter the product for which to print vac pack labels.
  BLANKS	integer (3)	You may want to print blank labels to give to your carriers. If so, enter the number of blank labels to print in this field—all fields below will be skipped.
  START DATE END DATE	date	Indicate the date range for which to print vac pack labels. Labels will be printed only for customers who start their vacation pack within this date range.
  DEPARTURE, TRUCK SEQUENCE	setup setup	Enter the departure sequence and truck sequence for which to print vac pack labels. This will determine which labels are printed and in what order.

• Click OK and then Continue to generate the labels or create the ASCII file.