I believe that the last pipelines demo call I attended with QuickBase staff they demonstrated an amazing method of using an inexpensive barcode scanner handle attached to an iPhone / Android phone and they were able to do multiple scans going into a big Text field. Then the user would hit enter and I think the demo of the pipeline was to iterate over those records and create individual records.
I will bet that was recorded and maybe someone here remembers who did that pipelines demo. If you can get hold them them they could have some ideas for you. If I recall correctly they might've needed to have a bit of crazy code to do that parsing but somebody has already thought this through.
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Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-29-2022 05:24
From: John Crosland
Subject: Bulk Barcode scanning on the mobile
Unfortunately, I think it is going to be a 3 tap minimum. In order to do bulk bar code scanning, then I think that you're going to want to buy a barcode scanner, and then use it to input into a spreadsheet, and then bulk upload the barcode data into the table.
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John Crosland
Original Message:
Sent: 07-29-2022 01:50
From: Malcolm McDonald
Subject: Bulk Barcode scanning on the mobile
I am needing to scan a pallet full of barcodes into an inventory system .. does anyone else have experience with doing this using the mobile app? So far, I can only figure out a 3-tap minimum solution of tapping into the field, tapping the barcode button, then tapping save / next. With 300 barcodes to scan, per pallet .. I'm thinking I might just be better off buying a barcode scanner.
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Malcolm McDonald
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