Barcode Scanning Actions

Display record: causes the first record containing the scanned string to be displayed and made the current record.

Print record: causes the first record containing the scanned string to be displayed and made the current record. If the Action Value is 0 then record is printed immediately, otherwise the Print Dialog is displayed – allowing the user to specify print options, such as the number of copies to be printed. [Most actions can be followed by printing of the affected record by checking the “Print after action” checkbox.]

Copy record: causes the first record containing the scanned string to be displayed and made the current record. The contents of the record are copied to the Windows' clipboard. The field separators copied to the clipboard are taken from the Action Value; normally text characters (such as , [comma] or a space character) should be used, but the following codes may be used for non-printing characters:

\p – newline
\r – carriage return
\n – linefeed
\t – tab

Mark record: causes the first record containing the scanned string to be displayed, made the current record and "Marked".

Add record: causes a new record to be added to the database, with the scanned text being inserted into the specified field of the new record. Database must be a native dLabel database – NOT an ODBC/ADO connection.

Copy field: causes the first record containing the scanned string to be displayed and made the current record. The contents of the specified target field are copied to the clipboard.

Append data: causes the first record containing the scanned string to be displayed and made the current record. The scanned data is appended to the specified target field.

Add value: causes the first record containing the scanned string to be displayed and made the current record. The numerical value of the Action Value is added to the target field. Action value may be positive or negative.

Replace date: causes the first record containing the scanned string to be displayed and made the current record. The current date is placed into the target field, replacing any content of that field.

Add date: causes the first record containing the scanned string to be displayed and made the current record. The current date is appended to the data in the target field.

Replace date & time: causes the first record containing the scanned string to be displayed and made the current record. The current date and time is placed into the target field, replacing any content of that field.

Add date & time: causes the first record containing the scanned string to be displayed and made the current record. The current date and time is appended to the data in the target field.

Find 1^st Replace 2^nd : causes the first record containing the first scanned string to be displayed and made the current record. The second scanned string (from a 2^nd barcode scan) is placed into the target field, replacing any content of that field.

Find 1^st Replace 2^nd + date: causes the first record containing the first scanned string to be displayed and made the current record. The second scanned string and an appended date and time stamp are placed into the target field, replacing any content of that field.

Find 1^st Multiple 2^nd: causes the first record containing the first scanned string to be displayed and made the current record. Subsequent scanned strings are appended to the target field. If Action Value is 1 the original contents of the target field are overwritten. If Action Value is 0, then the data are appended to the original contents of the target field. The action is terminated by pressing the escape key.

Barcode scanning Options