The EAN token is used to generate EAN13 codes that are often placed on the front page of a diary.

 

The syntax is :

 

 [:ean_xxxxxxxxxxxx]

 

where the string of x's (12 of them) represent 12 possible digits (the only digits allowed for each x are the numbers 0-9 and the letter "y").

 

You can include up to four lowercase y characters among the 12 characters of the EAN token. These are replaced by the corresponding number of trailing digits of the token’s year: for example, for 2027, yy becomes 27 and yyyy becomes 2027. The y characters need not be consecutive; the year digits are assigned to their positions in left-to-right order. Q++Studio then calculates and appends the thirteenth check digit.

 

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Topic 173690, last updated on 05-Nov-2026