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Allow Vista by Viewpoint to scan in barcodes that are on customer invoices

Invoices come from vendors that have barcodes on them.  Allowing the scanning of the barcode to populate AP would reduce keying and errors.

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  • Jan 5 2017
Company Bassett Mechanical
Job Title / Role IT
I need it... 6 months
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  • Nathan Sutherland commented
    January 06, 2017 19:30

    Most scanners send keypress events and can be custom programmed to send a special character before the code and after the code.

    The programming on the Vista client would then look something like this: (no matter what input box is currently in focus)

    1. On detection of Barcode Start Character, focus the INVOICE NUMBER box so the following characters flow into it.
    2. When Barcode Stop Character is detected, simulate the TAB keypress.

    The INVOICE NUMBER  box could have a validation procedure connected to it so the user could be prompted if they were entering a duplicate invoice number.

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