Why does BarTender only preview 1 label?

Jessie
Jessie
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Issue

When BarTender is configured it only shows 1 label, even if multiple containers/entities are selected to print.

Environment

Any Benchling tenant.

Cause

This is a BarTender limitation, which is that it will only print [n copies of] one label in a single print request. In order to preview n labels, we would have to issue n print requests which would create n PDFs, which we don't even know if this is possible. Therefore we have it hard-coded to do this because it would be confusing to preview multiple copies of the first label and none of the rest of the labels.

Resolution steps

No resolution as it's a Bartender limitation. 

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