Iphone As A Barcode Scanner

[Reid]

I was wondering if it was possible to use the iphone as a barcode scanner to input data into FM. I know that android has a barcode scanner app that can read barcodes but is there a way to get that into FM using either android or iphone?

[jbante]

This is definitely possible. FileMaker Go has to ask another iOS app to scan and decode the barcode, then return the value to FileMaker by passing it as a parameter to a script. You can do this with CNS Barcode ($15) and pic2shop (free). There's an article with the specifics on how to do it on Skeleton Key's blog. If you have money to blow on a bluetooth barcode scanner, you can use that with a lot less programming work, and the performance will be substantially faster. Zero Blue did a post about that.

[Reid]

This is definitely possible. FileMaker Go has to ask another iOS app to scan and decode the barcode, then return the value to FileMaker by passing it as a parameter to a script. You can do this with CNS Barcode ($15) and pic2shop (free). There's an article with the specifics on how to do it on Skeleton Key's blog. If you have money to blow on a bluetooth barcode scanner, you can use that with a lot less programming work, and the performance will be substantially faster. Zero Blue did a post about that.

Thanks! This helps a lot!