The Session Report is a summary of all the actions that were performed during the session. This is the most detailed report that can be produced by the program.
Format and default extension.
The report can be produced in the following formats
| Format | Extension | Notes |
| Comma Separated | .bds.csv | Check the adjacent box to include a 1st row with column headers in the report |
| Tab Separated | .bds.txt | Check the adjacent box to include a 1st row with column headers in the report |
| XML | .bds.xml | Column headers used as XML attribute names |
Column header
Enable/disable presence of Column header in Comma Separated and Tab Separated formats. Names of columns in the header are fixed. Examine contents of the file to identify names of the columns.
Report File
To specify location of the report click the Edit button to open the File Name editor dialog.
Fields
To specifies type and order of data to be present in the report click the Select button to open Select Fields dialog box. Click the Preset button to select default set of fields.
Write Binary Values as
XML, CSV and TAB-separated formats are mostly suitable for printable characters. When non-printable character are present behavior of an applications using reports (XML-viewer or Excel) can be vary and maybe unpredictable. Using barcodes with Binary Data section describes how to obtain and use raw barcode data.
For the purpose of this report binary
data are converted to printable data using one of the following
methods::
| Format | Details |
| ASCII and Hex | Replace strings of continuous binary characters
with a two-character hex value in <> (e.g. 07 or
ef). For example: DEX<01ef>p<a3> Where: DEX and p are ASCII character. 01 ef a3 are hex representation of binary characters. |
| Hex | Replace
each character in barcode value with two-character hex
value (e.g. 45 or e For example: 3012cebee2d0091 |
| Base64 | Replace barcode value by it's Base64 representation |
| Skip | Binary characters are removed from barcode value in the report |
| Replace | Replace each binary
character with the character shown in the adjacent box
 |
Barcode Value Format (BcpFormat) column identifies format used in Barcode Value (BcpValue)
Note: Due to specific issues of Comma- and Tab-Separated formats additional replacement rules apply:
- Comma character (,) in Comma-separated format is replaced with <comma> string
- Tab character (0x08) in Tab-separated format is replaced with <tab> string
- Line feed character (0x0a) is replaced by <lf> string
- Single " character is doubled: ""
- Carriage return character (0x0d) is replaced by <cr> string
- Total string length is limited to 252 characters. If barcode value is longer characters after character 249 are replaced by ... string
Above replacement is not applicable to Hex and Base64 (except string length limit) since no special character are present in these formats.
Include pages without Barcodes
If not checked input
file pages that do not contain any detected barcode, would generate
no entries on the report.
If checked data
about these pages to be listed in the report. Barcode
related fields are left blank.
If report file exists
Specify action of Barcode Director if report file already exists. Options:
Overwrite. Overwrites the existing file
Append. Report data of the report are merged or appended at the end of existing report file.
Create
unique file name. String with format _NNNN_
is inserted in file name before extension.
For example MyReport.bds.csv
becomes MyReport.bds._0001_.csv
Report an exception. Report is not created. Exceptions is generated and recorded in XML Results.