AWAM - Using the Intelligent Mail Barcode Tab

You can override your Company's global barcode assignment settings specified in DAT-MAIL’s Setup screen (File > Program Settings > Program Setup > Pallet Tracking/Intelligent Mail tab). By enabling an override function located in the Intelligent Mail Barcode tab in the AWAM profiles.

Import Profile - IMB tab

Merge Profile - IMB tab

Post Process Profile - IMB tab

The options are the same in all three profile types, except AWAM’s Post Process profile. With Post Process profiles, you have to explicitly turn on or enable the option to re-register IM Barcodes and then specify whether or not to override the existing, global barcode settings (refer to the image above). Requiring you to enable this override is to avoid having AWAM automatically re-register IM Barcodes when performing a post process task using an AWAM Post Process profile. This same concern is not applicable for Import and Merge profiles.

The Intelligent Mail Barcode tab is part of the Post Processing section of all three AWAM profile setup screens (Import, Merge, and Post Process – see image above). The settings in this tab allow you to customize or change your Intelligent Barcode assignment options for specific files – you can override DAT-MAIL’s global settings when needed or re-register IM Barcodes.

You can create two profiles – each using a different import folder. For example, one folder would be for jobs that use the global settings for IM Barcodes and the second for jobs that use different settings. The option is also available to have the barcodes assigned when the tags/placards are printed or when the import, merge, or post import process is run.

The settings for the IM Barcodes available in Import and Merge profiles automatically default to the current global settings found in DAT-MAIL until you decide to change them. Post Process profiles default to not registering barcodes regardless of global settings.

IM Barcode settings applied to a file are now retained and viewed in the Select Mail.dat File to Open window in DAT-MAIL. As a result, you can quickly determine whether or not global settings were used.

A few items to keep in mind when using this new functionality:

If you use your presort program to print tray tags or pallet placards, you should never enable DAT-MAIL to overwrite those barcodes unless you are willing to re-print them with DAT-MAIL.

If you use DAT-MAIL to overwrite tray or pallet placards, you must use DAT-MAIL or set up AWAM’s Post Processing’s Batch Reports tab to print tray tags and placards after they are overwritten.

This same override functionality for Intelligent Mail Barcodes is available in the Merge Mail.dat files and Split a Mail.dat file functions accessible from the Utilities menu in DAT-MAIL.

Suppose you do not have the option to register IM Barcodes enabled in DAT-MAIL’s global settings. In that case, the override feature will not display/be available in the manual merge and split functions found in DAT-MAIL or the CSM, PDR, and PBC file views accessible from the Advanced Navigator.

For some examples of import profiles that use the Intelligent Mail Barcode tab, refer to AWAM - Turn Off Register Barcodes , AWAM - Log Barcodes Without Overwriting Them, and AWAM - Turn On Overwrite for Trays/Pallets, Generate/Replace Barcodes .

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