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Documents & Reports 20/07/2023

Documents Overview

Documents Overview This article discusses how documents work and is helpful for technical / regulatory administrators. If you want to know about Printing Documents see related help below. Many different types of documents can be produced in Formpak, these include Safety Data Sheets, hazard labels and allergen declarations. In addition to the documents and labels supplied upon installation, other documents are available. It is possible to modify existing documents or design new custom documents....

Documents & Reports, Parties 20/07/2023

Emergency Contact number for a Safety Data Sheet

Emergency Contact number for a Safety Data Sheet To add an emergency contact for your Safety Data Sheet, use the ‘Emergency’ contact role for your TO. Go to Modify a TO Enter “default” and select your company Click ‘Contacts’ tab Click on Emergency contact role to see if you have a contact listed You can either edit the existing contact or Add a New Contact Click Save When the system displays emergency contact information on a Safety Data Sheet the Emergency c...

Documents & Reports 20/07/2023

Entering and Modifying Translations

Process for Entering / Modifying Translations Go to Enter Translations In Entity enter the type of content e.g. Document Content, Property, Application In Language To Edit enter the language of the translation These are the compulsory fields, but further criteria can be entered to filter the search results. Click Search On this screen the translations can be entered or modified in the Language To Edit column Click Save Last updated Apr 2016...

Classification, Documents & Reports, Items, Suitability 20/07/2023

Find Matching Items Tips

Tips on how to use Finding Matching Items Find Matching Items can be used to find pretty much anything! You can combine different criteria in the search, check suitability and print the results in a format you choose. A few tips to follow for some of the search areas: You can use ‘wild cards’ in the Name or Code to search for a closer match to what you require. Examples: “rose” means “rose”(in upper or lower case) anywhere “=rose” means begins with...

Documents & Reports, Properties 20/07/2023

Differences in allergens declared on Safety Data Sheet vs Allergen Declaration

Why are there differences in allergens declared on a Safety Data Sheet vs Allergen Declaration? These two documents have a different definition of what you might call an “allergen” which relates to the different regulations involved. The allergens which appear in the Allergen Declaration relate to a specific list of allergens from the Cosmetic regulation, and these allergens need to appear on the label of the cosmetic pack if above specified levels. All allergens present in the item...

Administration, Documents & Reports 20/07/2023

Direct Printing from Formpak to local printers

This guide is to advise how to set up Direct Printing from Formpak to local printers. Go to Print Document for an Item, enter an item, select a Document type and click Print, the following prompt will appear: Click the link on the prompt above or the link below, it will direct to the Formpak Support Centre to download the Formpak Printing Client. https://www.formpak-software.com/formpak-printing-client Click ‘Here’ on the screen below: Click open when done to launch the .exe Click Ye...

Administration, Documents & Reports 20/07/2023

Direct Printing Within Formpak

Direct Printing within Formpak This document describes how to enable Formpak users to print directly to a printer, i.e. in “Print a Document for an Item”, you can click “Print” and the selected document will be printed to the desired printer. N.B. In all Formpak systems, a user can select “Print to PDF” in “Print a Document for an Item” to produce a document or label and display it on the screen. To print the document or label, the user would then...

Documents & Reports 20/07/2023

Document Content Overview

Document Content Overview Documents are compiled referring to a Document design that contains Document Content (text) properties and other things. The text of a document includes content like a document title, headings, sub headings, fixed text and text which appears in specified circumstances. Document content is often split into small pieces like headings and information and the content exists directly in the software. An example of document content in the CLP Safety Data Sheet is the document...

Documents & Reports 20/07/2023

Document Design

Document Design The document design contains the instructions for how a document should behave and appear, including the visual appearance, properties, document content and behaviour. Adding or Modifying a Document Design is usually performed under direction or by request of Formpak personnel. This is because some document designs have dependencies, such as properties or the software application version, which may need to be updated first. You can ‘View a Document Design’ which will...

Documents & Reports 20/07/2023

Document Languages

What languages are available for document translation? Documents can be translated into any language. Printing a document in another language is dependent on the language translation being available in your Formpak system. Formpak provide translations (for a small fee) which enable Safety Data Sheets and hazard labels to be printed in other languages. These are the current language translations available: Arabic (United Arab Emirates) Bulgarian (Bulgaria) Chinese (China) Czech (Czech Republic) D...