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Scanning Reader and Item Barcodes



My barcodes have too few digits when I scan them

My barcodes have too few digits when I scan them

Different systems have different ways of dealing with padding 0 characters (the most common of these problems), so you need to pad out the barcode once it is scanned.

As a Managerial User, go into Lookup Manager and scroll down to the System Information section. In here you will find two settings:

  • Barcodes: Minimum reader barcode length
  • Barcodes: Minimum item barcode length

Select which one is giving the problem, enter the total required number of digits in the 'Value 1' field and save the setting back into the database. So if the barcode needs to be 4 digits, even if only 1, 2 or 3 are scanned, enter '4' as the required value.

(Remember, if you are principally using the Issue & Return feature on the main workspace page, you may need to log out then in again to have the new setting refreshed).



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pergamonmu/faq/scanners.txt · Last modified: 2018/06/06 11:37 by admin