HI,
I am using Zebra-ZD500R printer along with Android mobile SDK.
When printer language is set to English i am getting alerts like,
ALERT: PQ JOB COMPLETED [2021-11-24 14:40:08] [99J212700479]
But when printer language is set to other languages then alert is also getting notified in the same language. For example when i set the language to spanish, i received alerts like,
ALERTA: TRABAJO PQ COMPL [2021-11-24 14:40:08] [99J212700479]
Because of this i am not able to find out what that alert was, since that is notified in different language and SDK doesn't know all these. Is there any efficient way how we can handle the alerts when printer is set to different languages?
Thanks and Regards,
Arunvishal S
4 Replies
It's correct that the language used in the alerts is the language set by the display.language SGD. From the application perspective, you can query the setting of the display.language via SGD.GET("display.language", printerConnection). Then the application can handle the alerts accordingly based on the language.
Hi, Thanks for your input. I have few queries on your input. How can an app understand the alerts in an language agnostic way? Should I raise this as an improvement to the firmware/sdk? Or is there any way to set the printer settings in such a way that irrespective of any display language, the alerts should always be in English?
The alerts are designed to be descriptive for the users, because the alerts can be redirected to the user directly through the email when the alerts' destination is set as E-MAIL. Therefore the language used in the alerts is based on the setting of the display.language. Unfortunately, the alert language cannot be tied to one specific language at the moment.
OK. I will use the display.language to set the language of the printer to handle this case.
However, I was wondering if it would it help if there was a "error_code" that was always English and the "error_description" was in respective languages. Since error description makes sense mostly for email alerts and apps can handle it with their own custom text, we should separate them.
Some of the benefits I see are:
1. Host app does not need to know the error description for all languages.
2. If the error description is changed, then the app need not be updated
3. If a new language support is added to the printer, then the app need not be updated
Let me know if this can raised as a feedback or improvement in any support/here and I will do so.
For now, you can soft close this.