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MarkShnier__You

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5 years ago

Scanning including a Save and Add Another

I have a use case where the goal is to very quickly scan bar codes into a Quick Base table. The desired workflow is to be sitting on an Add Record form and have the scan also cause the form to save a...

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Quickbase Staff

5 years ago

Hi Mark,

So the desired behavior would be you would hit 'Add Record' and then scan a barcode, it would cause the form to save and go to add another, then you could just repeat a number of times until you had scanned all the barcodes you had in front of you and end up with Item 1, Item 3, Item 3 records?

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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quick Base
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MarkShnier__You
Qrew Legend
5 years ago
Exactly, the issue here is that there are dozens or hundreds of packages to scan so speed of scanning is the issue. So scan say 20 bar codes to create 20 records.

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Mark Shnier (YQC)
Quick Base Solution Provider
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- EvanMartinez
  Quickbase Staff
  5 years ago
  I haven't seen anything like that behavior for mobile as of yet but I can definitely bring it up with the mobile team and see if they have any thoughts. We are doing a survey right now on mobile experience and feedback for 2020 if you haven't put in that as feedback yet I would suggest it too so that it is on their minds. I get the feeling for mobile that would be something they would need to assess.
  
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  Evan Martinez
  Community Marketing Manager
  Quick Base
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  - BradLemke
    Qrew Assistant Captain
    5 years ago
    Is your customer/use-case open to the idea of a third-party software and/or barcode scanner? Does their workflow allow for a computer at their workstation, or is it completely mobile?
    
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    Brad Lemke
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