using barcodes with navision

Said

Could someone please point me into the right direction on where to get some info/documentation on how to implement the barcodes written from the Bar Code reader into navision...

kine

If you want use some barcode readers for entering data into NA, there are two main ways - keyboard scanner (reader that enter data as keyboard) - you dont need any extra program, data are entered like use enter it on keyboard (select right field, read bar code, data are in field)... second way - some extra reader (batch reading of barcodes etc.) - you need some interface to exchange data between barcode reader and NA - it depend on used barcode reader... :?

Said

Thanks Kine...

I'm new to navision and totaly confused here. What the customer wants is to have an ability to have his product data stored in Navision then by using a barcode reader - scan the product and display the associated item in the Navision database. Do I have to use ADCS and miniforms for that?

Thanks again for your help...

kine

It depend -
a) show item data on scanner or in navision client?
b) reader is some sort of inteligent scanner or "silly" keyboard reader?

ADCS is only for inteligent scanners, with ability to connect to telnet server or some other server and comunicate over TCP/IP or some protocol. ADCS is too "heavy" for "only display item data"...

if you need only:

"user enter item no. into field and NA show him Item Card for entered item" you can use same form for this task (user enter data directly) with keyboard scanner (user imput is replaced by imput from scanner)... it is very simple. 8)

Said

Yeah, I think they want a simple solution.

But in this case I have to associate the item no with the barcode somehow,

so when they scan the product - the correct item is found and displayed in

Navision... How do I do this?

kine

If you are using 3.70 (or 3.60) there is granule for "Cross reference" (can be found on item card in "Item" button) - there you can define alternative codes for this item. On documents (Sales order etc) exist field "Cross-Reference No." which if is filled, right item is entered into No. etc.

Said

Thanks Kine,

I'll give it a try...

Cristina

Hello everyone.
I have aloso a questions about barcode.
I have smart reader and I want to show also from Navision on scanner and after the scanner finshed his job I want to see in Navision what scanner do on a specific comand.

I have to use ADCS or I can to do in another way (C/Front or OCX, ADO ...) ?

10x in advance

Cristina

kine

It depends on your target. If you want on-line connection between your reader and NA, use ADCS (huge solution). If you want only transfer data into reader, use reader, transfer data back into NA, use ODBC, C/Front ADO or anything you want (Application server). It depends on what can reader do, which interface is able to use etc... There is no simple answer...