Commander4j

New here? Three steps get you from download to logged in: Downloads → Install Guide → First Login. The guide leads with Windows and Microsoft SQL Server Express, the most common setup, and covers macOS, Linux, MySQL and Oracle too. Already running Commander4j? See Upgrading.

Getting Started

• Introduction
• Overview
• Requirements
• Downloads
• Install Guide
  • Install Database
  • Install Commander4j
  • Setup4j (database connection)
  • First Login
• Server components (Tomcat, services, printing)
• Upgrade
• Starting
• Logon
• Navigation
• Example Screens
• What to set up first
• Folder Structure
• Printer (choosing where labels and reports print)
• Labels (what is printed and how to change it)

User Guide

Sections follow the application's main menu.

Pallet Transactions

• Pallet Label
  • Production Declaration
  • Assign a process order to a labeller
• Confirm
• Despatch
• Pallet Info
• Pallet Issue
• Pallet Return
• Split Pallet
• History
• Setup
  • Journeys
  • Equipment
  • Production Lines
  • Label Printers

Tray & Case Labels

• Case Label Printing
• Setup
  • Production Lines
  • Label Printers

Waste

• Overview
• Waste Log
• Waste Reporting
  • Waste Reports Examples
• Setup
  • Transactions
  • Containers
  • Locations
  • Reporting Groups
  • Reporting IDs
  • Materials
  • Types
  • Reasons
  • Location Link to Reporting ID
  • Reporting ID Link to Location

Quality Management

• Panel Samples
  • Print Sample Labels
  • Update Sample Results
  • Results Enquiry
  • Edit Sample
  • Panel Results
  • Results Analysis
  • Setup
    • Selection Lists
    • Inspections
    • Dictionary
• Weight Checks
  • Overview
  • Weight Checks
  • Weight Report
  • Setup
    • Sample Points
    • Scales
    • Workstations
    • Tolerable Negative Errors
    • Product Groups
    • Container Codes
• Sorting
  • Pallet Samples & Faults
  • Enquiries & Reports
  • Setup
    • Defect Types
    • Defect IDs
    • Sample Points
    • Sample Reasons
    • Shift Names
    • Packing Lines
    • Suppliers
    • Operatives
• Master Holds
  • Isolate
  • Setup
    • Decisions
    • Reasons

Master Data

• Customers
  • Customer Data
• Locations
• Materials
• Material Locations
• Material Types
• Units
• Batches
• Resources
• Orders
  • Process Order Barcode
• Bill of Materials
  • View / Edit
  • Enquiries
  • Setup
    • Defaults
    • Elements
    • Structure
    • Lists

Administration

• Customise Application
  • Overview
  • Menu Maintenance
  • Toolbar Maintenance
  • RF Menu Maintenance
• Permissions
  • How permissions work
  • Users
  • Groups
  • Audit Log
• Setup
  • Settings
  • Modules
  • Translations
  • Email Settings
• Interfaces
  • Interface Admin
  • Process Messages
  • Interface Log
  • Request Queue
  • Interface Service
  • Install Interface Services
  • Interface Message Formats
  • Interface Example Data Flow 1
  • Interface Example Data Flow 2
• Tools
  • User Reports
    • Report Properties
    • Schema Browser
  • Standard Reports
  • Archive Admin
  • Clone4j

Scanner web application

• Web Applications Overview
• Quality Panel Web Interface

Reference

• Barcode labels
  • Overview
  • Changing a Label
  • Label Fields
  • Label Template Syntax
  • Label Function Syntax
  • Zebra ZPL Label
  • Intermec IPL Label
  • Printer Queues
  • Useful Information
• Database Schema used by Panel Samples