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Labels

A Label is what connects a physical Item or Location to its digital record. Ohmventory can generate a printable label for any Item or Location, containing human-readable text (like the item's name) and a scannable DataMatrix code that encodes exactly which Item or Location it identifies. Print the label, stick it on the drawer or the part itself, and from then on that object is one scan away from its full digital record — no typing, no searching by hand.

Only Items and Locations can carry a Label. Spaces don't, since a Space is a site you browse into rather than a physical object you'd put a sticker on.

Templates​

A Label Template is a reusable visual layout: what text appears where, how it's styled, and where the DataMatrix code sits. Templates are designed on a true-to-scale canvas and can include:

  • Static text you type once (e.g. a company name).
  • Fixed placeholders that pull from the object itself — its name, quantity, owner, or (for Items) its current location.
  • One or more variable slots — a placeholder whose actual field it displays is configured separately per Item Type, so the same template's "variable row" can show Resistance on a Resistor's label and Capacitance on a Capacitor's, without needing a different template for each.
  • The DataMatrix code itself.

Every Organization gets a default Item template and a default Location template automatically, and both are fully editable.

:::info Screenshot placeholder The label editor: a small true-to-scale canvas (e.g. 12×40mm) with a name field, a DataMatrix code, and a variable field placed on it, plus a typography/position inspector panel. :::

Which template an Item actually uses​

Because Item Types are hierarchical, label assignment follows the same "most-specific-wins-with-fallback" pattern as field inheritance: if a specific Item Type has its own template/binding configured, that's used; otherwise Ohmventory walks up to its parent type, and so on, ultimately falling back to the Organization's default Item template if nothing more specific was ever configured. This means every Item is always printable, even if you've never touched label settings for its specific type.

Locations are simpler — there's one Organization-wide default Location template, since Locations aren't organized into a type hierarchy the way Items are.

Scanning a Label​

Printing a Label is only half the loop — scanning one back with a camera opens the matching Item or Location directly, no manual search needed. See Scanning for that side of it, and Labels & Printing for how to design and print a Label.