[Dxbase] Name on qsl labels

[Joseph Glockner]

Stan,

I was talking about the Label SIGNATURE -- the variable MYNAME
comes from the

Tools / Option / Personal Options / Name


So -- check that textbox .....


Joe wa6axe

Stan wrote:

> Joe,
> 
> Obviously, my mental model for how this works is wrong. I thought that when
> you clicked on qso's to add them to the labels list that an index of some
> kind for those q's was created and that when you then went into the label
> output and specified a particular label layout file that the program then
> went and got all of the calls from your q's list and generated the label
> outputs, including picking up variables such as "mycall," "myname," etc.
> Apparently, it is generating everything to go on the label, including the
> variables, before I even select which label layout file I am going to use.
> Maybe I can convert a label layout file so that it does not include the name
> at all and hence avoid having to manually change 120 labels.
> 
> Thanks,
> Stan, W4AG
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Glockner [mailto:jglock2 at airmail.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 5:14 PM
> To: Stan
> Cc: Dxbase at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Name on qsl labels
> 
> Tools / Options / User Options (then the Labels TAB) ..
> Label Signature ..
> 
> Change that to what you want  ...
> 
> BUT - remember that anything that is ALREADY in the labels pending database
> is carved-in-stone -- so, you will HAVE TO manually change the signature on
> each of those qsos..
> 
> 73 Joe wa6axe
> 
> Stan wrote:
> 
>>Sorry for asking a question that gets asked every few months, but 
>>where do I change the default name for printing labels from "Jack" to 
>>my name. I guess you're changing the "myname" variable, but I can't 
>>find anything in the help about where to do that.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Stan, W4AG
>>
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