The Separation Model – Part 12 – Barcode Scanning

by Matt Petrowsky

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Here's yet another video in this series which doesn't have much to do with the Separation Model. However, it's a really fun video because it deals with something so perfectly usable that it'd be a crime not to use it within your solution somewhere - barcodes.

You see, humans are prone to error and you can almost always reduce error when you use something the machine can both generate and read.

Barcodes have been one such answer to this "human error" dilemma for many decades. Even the most simple of barcode implementations can save many painful hours of mundane data entry. With a little creativity, I implemented inexpensive student ID badges for easily tracking attendance.

In this video, I discuss my super simple implementation of using barcodes within the KarateApp solution and give you a good deal of information about how you can implement in your own specific ways. With scanners and barcode fonts being both cheap and easy, it's a no-brainer for use in any FileMaker solution!