Barcoding System for Sales Transactions in Navision

Beatrice

Hi,

Our client is actually seeking to integrate a Barcoding system with Navision in order to facilitate the sales process.

They want to use this Barcoding system in order to select items in Navision with the help of a Bar Code Reader while entering a sales order or sales invoice.

They are actually working on Navision 4.0 SP1...Is it a standard functionality for this version? What is required to setup this barcoding system? Any idea will be most welcomed.

Does anyone know whether this functionality is available as STANDARD in the latest Navision versions?

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,
Beatrice.

Beatrice

Any suggestions will be most welcomed.

Please advise.

Thanks and Regards,
Beatrice.

awarn

Hi,

It is important to realize what a barcoding system is. Barcodes are just strings of numbers. Using a barcode scanner reads the string of lines, and creates keyboard input for the data.

So if you are able to print barcodes, on items (to make it easy for this example lets say you print a label / report containing the Item No. as a barcode), then later on you could scan the barcode when your cursor was in the No. field on a sales line.

There are a lot of ways to print a barcode, but if you search for a Code 39 font, you install this font on your computer, and then on the navisino reprot change the font name to your code 39 font name, and put * before and after the number, and a readable barcode will print on the screen, and you will be able to scan it.

No in the textbox on the report, the Source Expression is:
'*' + Item."No." + '*'

That is it - then the barcode prints, and you can scan it to save time on the other end.

That is the simplest way to go.

-awar

Savatage

You Can try this too.

If the Item's UPC Code is On the Item Card.
Then Open The Item Table In Designer.
On the "No." field Change it's AltSearchField property to
Item UPC/EAN Number or whatever it's named.

Now when you scan the UPC code into the "No." or the reular Item # the correct item will appear on the sales line

kine

Or you can add the "Barcode" text as another identification of existing item cad through Cross Refference. On the document line you can make visible field "Cross Refference" and if you scan the code there, it will automtically find the correct item card may be the correct measure unit and variant if you set them up for the barcode.

Savatage

Kine's way is much better it allows for multiple upc's per item.