Larry/John, Thanks for the replies. On the road today but I would like to provide a complete response tomorrow. Been down the scanner/upload, wifi, wedge scanner route. Sometimes simpler is better, but as the new tech gets cheaper, a handheld PC/scanner with realtime data, is very attractive. Dennis ***** Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Lustig <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:13:00 To: RBASE-L Mailing List<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: We have an app for that... RBase << (Sorry. A little late continuing this thread.) You have a hand scanner running your RBase app remotely so you can update RBase forms directly? That sound like what my customer needs when they are performing a physical inventory. No need to upload data since you are working directly with the data base. What is the approx cost for one of those scanner/smartphones? >> The device they're using (or were testing, I don't know if it's in production) was in the standard scanner gun form factor (with a cell-phone sized screen running Windows CE, using Remote Desktop to run a session on a terminal server). It wasn't cheap, about $2,000. If you want the exact name, I'll be on-site this week and can get you all the information. If I were doing this myself, however, what I'd experiment with would be an Android tablet and either using the camera in the tablet to scan the bar codes or added a separate, cheap, usb-attached bar code scanner to the device. This would be much cheaper (you could use the new Amazon Kindle if you wanted, $200), give you more screen to play around with, allow connectivity either via wifi or 3G/4G, and let you have different form factors for different tasks. You could use a phone-sized device (even a phone!!!) for super-portability, a 7-inch device for most warehouse work, and an 11-inch device if you need access to the full system. With this solution, you can run as much of your R:Base application from wherever you are as you want (of course, you may choose to make only the inventory module available). In all cases, the difficulty is getting whatever device you're using to scan the bar code to correctly pass the bar code into the RDP session you're running. Shouldn't be impossible, but our client did have to work out how to set up the scanner to do that. If you don't care so much about scanning the bar code (if you can just select the item from a list or type in the number), then this setup is really a no-brainer, in my opinion. -- Larry
