![]() ![]() If Portage Bay can help with your FileMaker solution and integration of bar codes like Code39 or Code 128, please fill out the contact us form below. We Can Help With Integrationīarcodes are pretty interesting and not that hard to integrate with your FileMaker solution. If your encoded data won’t ‘fit’ in a Code39 barcode, you can try one of the symbologies that compresses your data, like Code128, if you don’t have any specific requirements for a particular symbology imposed on you. I would suggest creating a layout and putting multiple copies of your bar code field on it in different sizes and with different options for field formatting, then print it and test with your scanner. Your mileage may vary significantly on this last point. That said, I successfully scanned my 8 digit barcode with the bar code shrunk down as low as 1.4” wide (as small as I tested). I think for a sheet of Avery 5160 labels (3 across by 10 down), making your container field approximately the length and width of the label (1” x 2 ⅝”) and choosing the ‘enlarge to fit’ option and unchecking the ‘maintain proportion’ checkbox will yield the most ‘scannable’ barcode. I printed out a sheet of bar code labels in different sizes with different options and then did some test scanning with a barcode scanner. The way the barcode will print is a function of the image format you choose on your FileMaker layout. You’ll be printing out your bar code, probably on labels, so that you can stick them on objects and scan them. If you have a layout where you want to populate different barcode fields with different values, you’ll need to dig a little deeper into how the script can be passed to the add-on object’s UUID so that the correct field has its barcode created. It examines the layout and automatically works properly if you only have one barcode generator add-on object and one barcode field that you are populating. You would likely call the script from a trigger so that the barcode generates automatically as you create records in your database. It’s unlikely you’ll want to click a button every time you want to generate the barcode. I selected the Barcode Generator add-on and clicked OK (please also see the official Claris documentation here). Click this to install an add-on into your solution. You’ll see a plus symbol in the lower left hand corner. Simply go into layout mode and click the add-ons tab of the left hand pane. Installing the add-on in your solution is easy. I created a field in my solution, creatively called ‘Bar_Code’. You should have a container field (or create it) for storing the bar code image that will be generated by the add-on. The maximum character length for Code39 is 43 characters, though that would make a very wide bar code. ![]() ![]() I’m going to use a field that is 8 characters in length. It doesn’t do any compression and therefore it doesn’t support long text objects well. For simplicity in this blog post, we’re going to use Code39, a very simple symbology that will encode letters and numbers. Different barcode symbologies support different characters and lengths. You should select a field that you want to encode as the barcode. You do not get any especially meaningful errors, but the bar code never appeared.) (I did my first 20 minutes of experimenting with the Barcode Generator add-on in a solution running on FileMaker Server 18. Make sure you are connected to FileMaker Server 19 if you are working in a hosted solution. Make sure you’ve updated to FileMaker Pro 19.1.3 (the updater can be downloaded here) This won’t be a long post, as the Barcode Generator add-on is pretty easy to use, but please make sure you have a few requirements taken care of up front: Our clients use barcodes to identify products they’re selling, to apply a serial number code to a manufactured item, and to build a scannable shipping manifest among numerous examples.ĭocumentation is limited at this stage, so I’m hoping this blog post will assist others in implementing the Barcode Generator add-on. I chose the barcode add-on.īarcodes are an essential tool in the modern IT world and being able to add them into your solutions without a plugin or barcode font is a welcome addition to native FileMaker functionality. You can check out that blog post and download the free add-on here.įor my part, I set out to pick one of the JavaScript add-ons (mostly at random) that comes with FileMaker 19.1.3 and experiment with it. We just recently published a blog post on our first internally created add-on, the PBS Logging add-on from Kate Waldhauser. With FileMaker 19.1.3’s release recently, we’ve been experimenting with the new add-ons feature in earnest. ![]()
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