Creating new templates for sample stickers

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Adding custom templates for sample stickers is quite simple.

• In your instance (zeocluster or zinstance) create a 'stickers' folder.
• In your buildout.cfg, add the following to all [client*] or [instance] sections:

zcml-additional = 
    <configure
     xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope"
     xmlns:plone="http://namespaces.plone.org/plone">
         <plone:static
          directory="${buildout:directory}/stickers"
          type="stickers"
          name="custom-stickers"
         />
    </configure>

• run bin/buildout

Then you can create any number of *.pt files inside the stickers/ folder. Generating correct sticker layout is just a matter of correct HTML and CSS. There are some examples in bika.lims here, and a really simple one here which prints side-by-side stickers.