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WADACO - split barcode field

  • 14 April 2022
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GISANCAR
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Is it possible to split a scanned barcode field into multiple input fields in IFS.

I can’t figure out how to split the barcode in Warehouse Data Collection or if it is possible or not.

We have labels, from an external system, where the barcode contains Shop order + Relase no + sequence no. For example ‘670303-1-1’. Separation character ‘-’.

Right now we scan part number, and then select the correct shop order from a list in the scanner. It would be much more efficient if we could scan the barcode with the shoporder/release/sequence no.

I also have a scenario where a QR code could be scanned that contains all fields from the label, with a separating character. It would be very useful to be able to split the information instead of scanning multiple different barcodes.

 

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There is a couple of ways of doing that. 

Use the GS1 barcode standard that was introduced with Apps10.

Or this:

Generally Wadaco only takes a string and saves it when user either press Save or enters a carriage return character (that character could come from either the user or the barcode or the scanner if you have configured it that way). The string is saved on the current data item in the configuration.

You could set up the barcode to have a carriage return character between each item in the barcode or you have some separator character between each item in the barcode and then configure your scanner to replace the separator with a carriage return when it scans a barcode and sends it to wadaco scanning client.
For more information about this you have to go to your scanner manual or the program that creates the barcode, this is outside what you can configure in Wadaco.
In Wadaco the only thing you do is to make sure to configure so that the items comes in the order they are on the barcode and turn off any automatic or fixed value handling of those items so you get them from the scanner and not from some server logic.

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