There are also wireless solutions that you can use. I am in the process of setting up a process using the Grabba barcode scanner. This is a sled that an i-Phone sits in. We have installed the Aeroprise Mobility solution to allow the iPhone to connect with Remedy.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén < [email protected]> wrote: > ** You have two ways of information when integrating a bar code system in > your app. The first one is reading a bar code to the application. The next > one is to generate a bar code from the application. > > Depending on your application and your procedures you will need one or > both communication ways. > > Reading the bar code to your app is the easiest part of the job. Just buy > and standard bar code scanner and you will see that the drivers normally > consider it as a keyboard input. So when you press the button at your > barcode scanner is just like writting numbers and some extra keys (like > return, tabs, etc.). Some drivers are amazing since they can focus the > cursor on a field before inserting the numbers, so you don't need to click > on the field before. If not, you can do as I did. I added a big button > called "BARCODE SCAN" that only focuses the correct field. > > The other part is about your report engine. I know that there are > solutions to get barcodes at cristal reports, but I'm not aware of them. I > didn't need them, since we print tons of barcodes, attach them to the CI's > and the scan them to the CMDB. So we always read the barcodes, never print > them from the application. > > Jose Manuel Huerta > http://theremedyforit.com/ > > > > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Grooms, Frederick W < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> My first suggestion would be to find out which scanner hardware they will >> be using. >> > > _attend WWRUG12 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ -- Warren R. Baltimore II Remedy Developer 410-533-5367 _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
