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Create A New Project

Create a new project from a template
Label Commander has built-in various templates for project creation.

Category: Select a category of templates

Design Templates: Select a template in the "Design Template" List, the instant preview of the selected template will be displayed in the right side of the window. After you found a template which you would like to use it for the new project creation and to confirm the selection, Simply Click on OK button.
And then a "enter the new project name" window will show-up, enter the name of the new project, and click OK. Label Commander will generate a new project based on your selected template and it will create design, database automatically.

Create a new blank project
If you would like to create a whole new blank project, select the "Create a new blank project" option and click OK button, and a "Create Database" window will show-up.
In here you can design the structure of the database.

Delete Selected Column: Deleted the column you selected.

Insert New Column: Insert a new column to the database which you ready to create.(To learn more about Columns and Rows(Records), please visit the Database management chapter)

After finished designing, click Next button, a "Print-Time Variables" window will show-up.

Click on "Print-Time Variables Setting" button to edit the print-time variables.

And then click Next button, a "New Project" window will show-up.

Size: There are various frequently-used sizes preset in Label Commander, which can meet general design requirements. You can choose the preset size in the Size option.
Unit: to set the measurement unit
Background Color: to set the background color of the canvas.

Label Commander has a simple design creator for creating new blank project, it will create project's design based on the selected columns(fields). if you would use this feature, select "Yes, I want the software to create a simple template for me", and select the Fields(Columns) and use"<" ">" button to control which of columns appear on the front side or reverse side.
Click Next button, a "Template Layout" window will appear. select the layout style you would like to use for the design creator.

If you do not want the software to create a simple design for you, click on "No, I want to create a blank template" and click next button, to finish the creation.

Create a new project from an existing data source
Label Commander supports three types of database. Access(*.mdb/*.accdb), Excel(*.xls/*.xlsx) and MS-SQL based databases.

Access: For SMBs and organizations and other general use and expecting will have no more than 10,0000 records in the database , we recommend to use Access as data source.(in the create project from template and create new blank project, Label Commander also use Access as default data source)

Excel: For more "lightweight" scenes and for more easier to edit the data with other software, Label Commander supports Excel as data source, you can also inserting variable image with excel. Although Image(Binary) data type doesn't supported by Excel, but you can still able to use variable image in Label Commander, to use variable image with excel, you can create a new text column in excel which storing the file path of images(i.e. c:\employee_photos\JohnDoe.jpg), and when you inserting or editing variable image elements in the Label Commander, select this text column as data source.

SQL: this type of database generally used in large enterprise which managing over 10,0000 records in the database.

After selected the type of database and the database location, A select default table window will show up. Select the table which you want to use and click Next button, a "Print-Time Variables" window will show-up.

Click on "Print-Time Variables Setting" button to edit the print-time variables.

And then click Next button, a "New Project" window will show-up.

Size: There are various frequently-used sizes preset in Label Commander, which can meet general design requirements. You can choose the preset size in the Size option.
Unit: to set the measurement unit
Background Color: to set the background color of the canvas.

Label Commander has a simple design creator for creating new blank project, it will create project's design based on the selected columns(fields). if you would use this feature, select "Yes, I want the software to create a simple template for me", and select the Fields(Columns) and use"<" ">" button to control which of columns appear on the front side or reverse side.
Click Next button, a "Template Layout" window will appear. select the layout style you would like to use for the design creator.

If you do not want the software to create a simple design for you, click on "No, I want to create a blank template" and click next button, to finish the creation.