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Scanning barcodes

Scanning barcodes - FileMaker Go Tutorial

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Scanning barcodes

- [Instructor] FileMaker Go can use the device's camera to provide support for bar code scanning. You don't need any extra peripherals or devices, or anything like that. You just simply use your phone or you iPad. And there's not much to it. This is one of those features where if you just simply put a container field on a layout, you do have the bar code scanning option available to you. So for example, if you look at the exercise file on FileMaker Go, and if I click into it, you'll see that bar code is the third option down, and I can simply choose that option if I want, and invoke the device's camera to scan a bar code. However, you will also notice, though, that in this exercise file, you see we've got this little bar code icon there, and that is attached to a script step. If we look at this in FileMaker Pro, you'll notice that the button here has a single script step assigned to it, and that is the Insert From Device script step which is configured to grab the data and put it into…

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