Barcode

lei

Dear All,

very urgent, does anybody know whether Navision has the function of creating barcode? or how Navision links to the barcode system?



many thanks

xavigepe

First of all you should have installed in your machine a barcode font. After that, in your report or in your form use, for example, a textbox and change "manually" the font of the control for the name of your barcode font.

I've never tried it, but hope this helps

Kappe

Hello lei

Also you should use the search function of the board.
Then you will find a lot of hints regarding Barcodes in Navision.
The easiest way is - as xavigepe wrote - to use a barcode font.
Some of these fonts you can get for free.

If you must use some special barcodes you have to use they through an ocx.

But what do you mean with a link to a barcode system?

Regards
Kappe

lei

Dear all,

Thank you for your reply.

I am sorry that I did not make my question clear.
Currently our barcode process is that the new item barcode is set up manually by using barcode database and designed by a tool called 'Design program 2000'. Once the barcode is set up, we copy the barcode number form the barcode database table into Navision 'Item Card'.
We are looking for whether Navision can create barcode automatically as soon as the new part is set up in the ‘Item Card’, and the barcode can be printed out from Navision as well.

Many thanks.


Lei

Savatage

how about the barcode generator?
http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1789

Alex_Chow

lei wrote:

Dear all,

Thank you for your reply.

I am sorry that I did not make my question clear.
Currently our barcode process is that the new item barcode is set up manually by using barcode database and designed by a tool called 'Design program 2000'. Once the barcode is set up, we copy the barcode number form the barcode database table into Navision 'Item Card'.
We are looking for whether Navision can create barcode automatically as soon as the new part is set up in the ‘Item Card’, and the barcode can be printed out from Navision as well.

Many thanks.


Lei

There's no "out of the box" program in Navision that will create barcodes automatically. However you can create this process with a little bit of programming.

So, yes, you can have Navision automatically print barcode when a new part is setup.

Savatage

There are some text files you can read that come with the download..

first you import the FOB file into Navision - It creates a report #50078

Then you put the navibar.exe file in a directory
for example c:\ (if you want to use it)
or a network drive (if everyone want's to use it)

in the report look at the c/al code you'll see

IF Item."Item UPC/EAN Number" <> '' THEN BEGIN
ok:= SHELL(STRSUBSTNO('%1%2%3%4%5%6',
    'i:\navision attain\Navibar.exe',       // Program
    ' ' + Item."Item UPC/EAN Number"+'{',   // code to generate
    '05'+'{',                               // barcodetype
    '120'+'{',                              // width in pixel
    '50'+'{',                               // high in pixel
    'c:\temp\bild.bmp'));                   // destination for the .bmp-file

-I changed the orig code to Item."Item UPC/EAN Number" because this is where I hold my code info.
-I changed the //Program location to the drive I keep my Navibar.exe program in.
-I created a c:\temp directory to hold the created barcode

-Barcode type is 05 for tye type you need - on the documentaion in the c/al code you will see all the different types you can have - change the # to the type you need.

possible barcodetypes:

00-ISBN
01-EAN 13
02-EAN 8
03-EAN 5
04-EAN 2
05-UPC A
06-Code 39
07-Code 25 interleaved
08-CodeBar
09-Code 25
10-Code 39 Extended
11-Code 128 A
12-Code 128 B
13-Code 128 C
14-Code 128
15-EAN 128
16-EAN 99
17-UPC E
18-PostNet
19-Royal Mail
20-MSI
21-Code 93
22-Code 93 Extended
23-PZN
99-None

save the report run the report - you can pick an item # and it will create a barcode.

let's get to the point where you can get a barcode out - & we can go on from there.