Rob, About every scanner you buy is connected with a special cable between your keyboard and your computer. This means you connect these cables and you can work with them immediately. It behaves like a keyboard. This means everywhere is a field you can put a cursor in , the scanner can scan and put the numbers into the field. For example you can use it in MS Excel, or in MS Word, or in Ofbiz ,etc etc. In ofbiz in the catalog manager there is for every product an ID field (identification) where you can choose if you put a ISBN number in it for books, or the EAN number for barcodes of products, and some other types. Put in every product ID field , the barcode of the field. If you have done that big work, you can use the inventory management module to lookup the ID field. Normally OOTB you can search only on Product code or Product internal code. Pierre Smits has a solution to add the ID field so you can search into the inventory easily with the barcode scanner on the ID field of the product.
Regards, Eric Olagos bvba Heidi Dehaes Kerkstraat 34 2570 Duffel Belgium Tel. : 015/31 53 04 GSM : 0485/22 35 80 E-mail : [email protected] http://www.olagos.eu http://www.olagos.com http://www.olagos.be http://www.olagos.nl 2016-03-21 12:10 GMT+01:00 Rob Montalvo <[email protected]>: > All, > > Thank you very much for the feedback. This is certainly reassuring. > > Eric, > > Would you be willing to share the details of the particular scanner you > are currently using? Also, please pardon my ignorance here as I am new to > OFBiz (been working on/with it for less than a month), are you relying on > the hhfacility alluded to by Pierre (earlier in the thread) in the use case > you described? > > Thank you in advance for all the help! > > Rob > > > > On Mar 21, 2016, at 5:46 AM, Heidi Dehaes - Olagos < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > I use a barcode scanner which behaves like a keyboard. > > Just put the cursor in the right field on the screen and scan. > > You don't need extra software for this functionality. > > I use it in Ofbiz. > > > > Regards, > > Eric > > > > Olagos bvba > > Heidi Dehaes > > Kerkstraat 34 > > 2570 Duffel > > Belgium > > Tel. : 015/31 53 04 > > GSM : 0485/22 35 80 > > E-mail : [email protected] > > http://www.olagos.eu > > http://www.olagos.com > > http://www.olagos.be > > http://www.olagos.nl > > > > > > > > 2016-03-21 10:41 GMT+01:00 Jacques Le Roux <[email protected] > >: > > > >> You can use a barcode scanner to enter the barcodes in a web interface > as > >> if you were doing it by hand (you will see numbers in web fields, not > >> barcodes of course). > >> This said you might need to adapt the OOTB OFBiz UI to fit your needs... > >> > >> Jacques > >> > >> > >> Le 19/03/2016 21:19, Rob Montalvo a écrit : > >> > >>> Dear all, > >>> I would like to incorporate the ability to track the movement of > >>> inventory items using barcode scanning technology (scanners, or > >>> Android-based devices). > >>> I have looked through the documentation, but I have not found anything > >>> that tells me what I need to do to make this happen.Is this something > that > >>> is supported OOTB by OFBiz, or do I need to write a custom module? > >>> Does anyone have any pointers they can share on how to accomplish such > a > >>> feat? > >>> Any open-source alternatives I should be looking into? > >>> Thank you very much in advance!!! > >>> Best regards,Rob > >>> PS: Thanks a lot to Pierre Smits for his answers to my previous > >>> questions. They were spot on!! > >> >
