About Broadcast Forms

Broadcast forms can be printed to any selected device.

Forms include:

  • ASCII forms
  • WYSIWYG forms

ASCII forms

ASCII Forms are simple text data. Broadcast provides a text editor in which you can define the ASCII forms that are broadcast to output devices.

ASCII forms and their companion Control Character Token files exist in three states.

Files in each state are located in a separate folder in the following project directories.

Form/File Directory
ASCII forms <project name>\CimForms\ASCIIForms
Control Character Token files <project name>\CimForms\CCharFiles

The subfolders in which the files are located according to the form's states are as follows.

Subfolder Form State Description
Old Archived Were published, but have been removed from production.
Prod Published
  • Currently being used in production.
  • Located in a predefined directory.
  • Available to Broadcast function blocks.
Working Under development
  • Only accessed from the ASCII Form editor
  • Tested against live data.
  • Not available to the Broadcast Function Blocks.

WYSIWYG forms

WYSIWYG forms are created in a WYSIWYG Graphical Editor in which you can layout several types of objects including

  • Text, and bar codes that can report real data when they are printed.
  • Rectangle and line graphic objects to aid in form layout.
  • Graphic images.

Files in each state are located in a separate folder in the following project directories.

Form/File Directory
WYSIWYG Forms <project name>\CimForms\WYSIWYGForms

The subfolders in which the files are located dividing the forms into functionality are as follows.

Subfolder Form State Description
Old Archived Were published, but have been removed from production.
Prod Published
  • Currently being used in production.
  • Located in a predefined directory.
  • Available to Broadcast function blocks.
Working Under development
  • Only accessed from the ASCII Form editor
  • Tested against live data.
  • Not available to the Broadcast Function Blocks.