To QA the label printer you need a windows computer, the label printer itself, and lots of patience.
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Turn on the label printer (!!)
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Turn on the windows computer
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The admin user's password is in 1Password
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It will take forever to boot up. Just be patient.
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If the changes have been made to the label printer itself, you will need to download a new version. You can do this as follows:
- open the desktop folder and delete any instance of the label printer in there because we want to download the newest version & it just gets confusing if there's a bunch of them in there.
- go to downloads-staging.liefery.com/labelprinter/whatever-version-we-are-testing (ask a fellow dev what version you should be testing) E.g.: downloads-staging.liefery.com/labelprinter/v3.2.0/
- click the download button
- find the downloaded file in the downloads folder and double click it
- copy the folder to the desktops folder (it will unpack it)
- open the folder
- double click the label printer app to open it (it's the one with the Liefery logo)
- the app should now open and you can print a test label by clicking the button to do so
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If the changes have been made to the liefery backend, you don't need to do the above steps, but you still need to navigate into the label printer folder & open the app
- print a test label to make sure everything is working
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go to staging.liefery.com/parcel_hub/scan and test your labels! Josi's user should already be saved, so you shouldn't have to log in as anyone strange.
- If things aren't working, check the javascript console for errors. Maybe you found a bug!
- Print a test label to make sure things are hooked up correctly