[AccessD] Adding Bar Coding and Scanners to an Access Application

The general concept is pretty simple.  Just need to find a truetype
barcode font and set the field on your report to that font.  Scanners
can act as input from a keyboard, so with the focus on the field for
data entry of the barcode, scan the code and it is entered into the
field.

As for the details of which barcode font to use, I'm not any help but
others can probably help you there.  There are many barcode scanners out
there, maybe a search on Newegg or Amazon will be a good place to start?

I know there is much more detail to this, as to which type of barcode to
use, features on scanners, etc..., etc... Etc...

HTH,

Rusty


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Brad Marks
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:28 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Adding Bar Coding and Scanners to an Access
Application

All,

In order to save time and improve accuracy, our Vice President of
Operations would like for me to look into the possibility of using bar
codes to collect "labor" information from the factory floor.  This is
basically to record the number of parts that are completed by a
work-center.  To do this, we would like to use a scanner to read the
"Job Number" from an Access report (Factory Floor "Traveler").

I have some experience with bar coding back in the 1970s in an IBM
mainframe environment, in a prior life, on a different planet  :-)

I have no experience with bar coding in the Microsoft Access realm.

If I have an Access report that has a key (such as "A12345") how can I
add a bar code to the report for this piece of information?

If I am able to print a bar code for such a piece of information on a
report, what is needed in order to use a scanner to "input" this key
into an Access application or other Windows-based application?

Thanks,
Brad

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