NF and pheripheral connectivity

Gary
Gary Member Posts: 3
edited 2000-11-20 in Navision Financials
Hello all.

The company I work with is doing a number of installation with clients that require hand-held scanners (both tethered and RF), scales and label printers to be used, sometimes all on one machine.
I am wondering if anyone here has had experience with these matters and would be willing to share information.
We are at the moment wondering if the NF client can handle these types of real-time pheripherals, polling from two serial ports and printing to a label printer. The solution will have to be rock-solid. The alternative would be to write a custom client in Delphi or VB that uses ODBC to dump the data into NF. The real drawback to that is not being able to call validate functions through ODBC.

Any input would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Gary

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  • JohnP
    JohnP Member Posts: 56
    Printing - Find some barcode fonts (lots about) and put them on Navision reports to print out whatever you want.

    Scanning - tethered readers are easy if they use wedges to sit between the keyboard and the PC, no special coding is needed at all, put cursor in the relevant field, plink the code and you're done. RF scanners are harder but can either be done in batch mode by dumping a text file then writing a dataport or they come with an OCX that you can incorporate into your objects.

    Have a look at Navision Advanced Distribution. It has barcodes and support for Teklogix RF scanners.

    Cheers

    John
  • dimsm
    dimsm Member Posts: 2
    Our company has a decision that uses bar code scanners through NF, directly. It is in a complect with a "restaurant module".
    Contact us if you want more information.

    Greetings,
    Dimitar.
  • mfabian
    mfabian Member Posts: 187
    Gary,

    Printing is not the problem (John absolutely covers that point) but scanning might be:

    If you can take the object to scan besides a Navision PC, it's not a problem. Scanners simply interface with the keyboard which means they simulate keystrokes. From the point of view of the receiving application (Fin) it doesn't make a difference wheter you type in the data on the keyboard, use a barcode scanner or a ocr reader.

    Situation gets more complex if the scanner is not connected with a Navision PC. For example if you use an enhanced Palm Pilot or another portable device to scan the data. Later you have the problem to synchronize the scanned data into your Navision PC.

    I think it might help if you could describe the physical environment: Where does scanning occur, which device (temporarily) stores the data etc.

    Marcus

    Marcus Fabian
    m.fabian@thenet.ch
    +41 79 439 78 72
    With best regards from Switzerland

    Marcus Fabian

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