Hi,
I am trying to figure out how to fix the order strings to a fixed length of string to display. I am not currently in front of the test machine. Is there any function for that?
I am sorry but what is an order string?
the order menu item description
What do you mean by a fixed length of string to display? So your talking about the menu item name? Do you have a long description that you want to shorten?
Correct. I just want to display only a fixed string length of the menu item name
Go to your menu and change the Header to whatever you want. Menu > Edit Product Properties. Set Header for each product to what you want.
No, what I want is to not to change anything on the menu item. Just when we print the ticket or receipt
That would have been good to know 
Ok before I give another answer can you be more descriptive? maybe show some examples? And try to use the actual names of the features. Order Strings really threw me off as nothing in SambaPOS is called Order Strings.
Menu item: some-dishes-with-long-name-to-be-printed-on-ticket
Then I just want to show this on ticket/receipt: some-dishes-with-long
I was wondering if SambaPOS has some helper function similar to:
[=substring([Order Item],1,10)]
for example
Ok so some of your dishes have really long names and you just want part of that name showed on ticket? Hmm there is helper functions available but I am not sure if it works on Orders. I have not seen anything in the forum similar to this request.
Have you considered just shortening the name? I mean it could still show the long name on Menu using Header like I described but product would be shorter for printing purpose.
Yes, that would be one solution but I just wonder if we could do this with some helper functions
Try this:
[='(ORDERS)'.substr(1,6)]
I guess I am going after this issue of alignment:
I want to print:
{NAME} | {QUANTITY} | {PRICE} | {TOTAL PRICE}
So I need a fixed column width in the name.
How can this be done?
This will justify the Price and Total Amount to the Right, and the Quantity and Name to the Left.
If the Name is too long to fit, it will simply be truncated.
[ORDERS]
<J00>{QUANTITY} {NAME}|{PRICE} {TOTAL AMOUNT}
{ORDER TAGS}
If for some reason you feel that you must set a fixed length, you can use this:
[ORDERS]
<J00>{QUANTITY} [='{NAME}'.substr(0,5)]|{PRICE} {TOTAL AMOUNT}
{ORDER TAGS}
Specifically, this part sets the number of characters:
[='{NAME}'.substr(0,5)]
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We start with this for an Order Line on a printed Ticket:
<J00>{QUANTITY} {NAME}|{PRICE} {TOTAL AMOUNT}
Output:
------------------------------------------
1 Milk.Small 40.00 40.00
10 Tea 40.00 400.00
100 Water Small 30.00 3,000.00
==========================================
Padding of Quantity:
<J00>[=('{QUANTITY}'+" ").substr(0,4)] {NAME}|{PRICE} {TOTAL AMOUNT}
Specifically, we are right-padding Quantity to 4 characters:
[=('{QUANTITY}'+" ").substr(0,4)]
Output:
------------------------------------------
1 Milk.Small 40.00 40.00
10 Tea 40.00 400.00
100 Water Small 30.00 3,000.00
==========================================
While we’re at it, how about we fix Price and Total Amount alignment …
<J00>[=('{QUANTITY}'+' ').substr(0,4)] {NAME}|{PRICE} [=(' ').substr(0,(7-TN((F('{TOTAL AMOUNT}','0.00')).length)))+F('{TOTAL AMOUNT}','0.00')]
Specifically, we are left-padding Total Amount to 7 characters:
[=(' ').substr(0,(7-TN((F('{TOTAL AMOUNT}','0.00')).length)))+F('{TOTAL AMOUNT}','0.00')]
Output:
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1 Milk.Small 40.00 40.00
10 Tea 40.00 400.00
100 Water Small 30.00 3000.00
==========================================
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