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• Using BDE SQL Links to connect to Oracle database

  Article ID: 132 - Updated: Aug 30, 2009 - Products: - Version: V4 - Category: License and Activation
  

  Oracle databases can be used in two different ways in NiceLabel. The first one is a connection via ODBC drivers for your Oracle server, the second one is a direct connection using BDE (Borland Database Engine). The latter one is faster and more reliable,...

• Locking Paradox databases in multi-user network environment

  Article ID: 133 - Updated: Sep 2, 2009 - Products: - Version: any - Category: License and Activation
  

  Locking of database files in network environment is important for their consistency. If two or more users would be able to simultaneously write to the same database table, they could not be aware of updates to the table some other user has made. Only the changes...

• Using local language characters with dBase databases

  Article ID: 134 - Updated: Sep 2, 2009 - Products: - Version: any - Category: License and Activation
  

  When printing labels with data from dBase databases it can happen that some of your local language characters are not printed correctly. The cause for this behaviour is misconfiguration in language settings of the BDE (Borland Database Engine).

• Values from Excel worksheet do not appear in NiceLabel. The database-variables are empty or not formatted properly

  Article ID: 135 - Updated: Dec 17, 2014 - Products: - Version: any - Category: License and Activation
  

  When you have connected an Excel worksheet to the label, sometimes the data from worksheet is not transferred to the variables on the label and they remain empty. Or the data formatting from Excel spreadsheet is not transferred to label variables correctly. This can...

• When using Excel database the "Database login" dialog box is shown at form start-up and data from Excel does not show

  Article ID: 136 - Updated: Aug 30, 2017 - Products: - Version: V6 - Category: License and Activation
  

  Cause 1 You do not have the Microsoft Office data access components installed on your computer. Without the data components the applications cannot access the data in Excel files. Cause 2 The problem originates in the fact is that two different...

• Cannot use data from FoxPro database tables

  Article ID: 137 - Updated: Sep 2, 2009 - Products: - Version: any - Category: License and Activation
  

  Databases created in FoxPro (with file extension .DBF) are not natively supported in NiceLabel software. There is no database driver provided for connection to such data in NiceLabel installation. If you need to link to FoxPro databases there are two solutions...

• Cannot use data from dBase database tables

  Article ID: 138 - Updated: Aug 30, 2009 - Products: - Version: V4 - Category: License and Activation
  

  You have created the form in NiceForm application and have linked it to the dBase database. You can see the dBase table in the design NiceForm window. But as soon as you start your form, the run NiceForm window does not show the data in the table object. When you...

• Converting text file to a database

  Article ID: 139 - Updated: Sep 2, 2009 - Products: - Version: any - Category: License and Activation
  

  Text files are often used as files with data for the labels. Text databse are usually generated from some software that does not have the label-printing features. NiceLabel can use the text file and print the data on the label, thus adding label-printing...

• Using Office 2007 documents

  Article ID: 169 - Updated: Jan 27, 2010 - Products: - Version: V5 - Category: License and Activation
  

  Starting with Office 2007 there is a new format of the data files, based on the Open XML file formats . At the same time the filename extensions have changed . The Excel and Access data files are often a source of product data for label printing in NiceLabel...

• Connectivity to Office documents on 64 bit platforms

  Article ID: 255 - Updated: Jan 20, 2016 - Products: - Version: V6 - Category: License and Activation
  

  Before you can use data from Microsoft Office files such as Microsoft Office Access 2010 (*.mdb and *.accdb) files and Microsoft Office Excel 2010 (*.xls, *.xlsx, and *.xlsb) files in NiceLabel software, you must have installed appropriate database drivers to access...

• The data from Excel is truncated to 255 characters

  Article ID: 276 - Updated: Jul 21, 2015 - Products: - Version: any - Category: License and Activation
  

  When you retrieve data from Excel spreadsheet using the Microsoft Excel ODBC driver, the fields that contain more than 255 characters might be truncated to 255 characters.

• Understanding multi-user license activation errors

  Article ID: 305 - Updated: Apr 8, 2019 - Products: - Version: V2019 - Category: License and Activation
  

  Are you getting multi-user license activation errors using NiceLabel 2019? They can be frustrating and difficult to understand. Let's learn why they happen and how to resolve them . Here’s an error message you might receive: