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Ben_George · 04-07-2021

I’m loving the barcode scanning capabilities - it’s in fact the reason we’re using AppSheet! However the current barcode implementation is very aggressive with its detection, if multiple barcodes are in the field of view it’s impossible to control wh...

Ben_George · 04-18-2021

Thanks Steve - but just be clear, we’re not trying to work out what symbologies it can support, but rather the request here is how to restrict what it can support on a column by column basis so that we can validate scans better!

Ben_George · 04-16-2021

Quite correct, it wouldn’t! It is however a relatively easy change that would help enormously for a lot of use cases The second part of the feature request was a bit more involved but aimed at helping with that scenario and that was to allow for cust...

Ben_George · 04-15-2021

Actually I’m not explaining it very well I suspect! Currently, the scan window closes and returns a value as soon as it finds any proper barcode, if there are 5 in the field of view it could be any one of them. In a typical app however you are search...

Ben_George · 04-07-2021

Hi John - I’ll experiment more with the Valid_If to see if it is flexible enough, it certainly can help prevent saving a bad scan, but I don’t think it can stop it making one in the first place. With regard to built in scan behaviour not being modifi...

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