We have an app for tracking form internal processes. There is a paper printout that will travel with a part throughout the plant. I want to add a barcode to that printout so when someone needs to update the record, they can just scan the barcode (we already have USB barcode scanners at all the computers). Is there a way to take the value of a field and create a barcode?
I was looking at doing this as well and found the following formula posted in Discussions:
Barcode Key Field (This field used to calculate a barcode number)
ToNumber("[Store #]")&
[Record ID#]&
[Related Store]&
[Equipment Type]
Barcode Link (URL Formula)
"http://www.keepautomation.com/online_barcode_generator/linear.aspx?DATA="&[Barcode Key]&"&TYPE=7"
Barcode Image (Text Formula)
"<img src=" &[Barcode Link]& ">"
Here is the link to the full discussion.
https://community.quickbase.com/discussions/quickbase-discussions/can-you-generate-a-barcode-from-a-key-field-calculation/52210
We ultimately chose to go another route so I didn't actually end up implementing. Hope this gets you started.
Thanks for the info. I emailed KeepAutomation to ask for pricing to use their API in business use, just haven't heard back yet. I spent some more time on this today and also found this site: https://quickchart.io/documentation/barcode-api/. This works pretty nice as well. I setup my field as a Rich Text Formula, here's the formula:
"<img src=https://quickchart.io/barcode?type=code39ext&text="&[PART#]&"&includeText=true>"
