Re: CASH REGISTER/POS Filemaker Integration

In article <120720081212340930%helpful_harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Helpful
Harry <helpful_harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article
<53494eec-2bb6-4f46-879f-7491c5043935@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Jens Rasmussen, Fimano, Denmark" <fimano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Nicolay, good to see you here!

Just wanted to add that I have done someting similar to a POS system.
Not with a drawer, but with bar codes. The investment in a bar code
scanner should be well worth it. Symbol is a good brand and is now
owned by Motorola, btw. It has a stand so you can place it on the
counter.

If you test the input from e.g. a EAN-13 bar code in TextEdit, you
will probably find that a trailing CR is hard to get rid of. But this
can be used if you have a custom dialog appear when the user is
expected to scan an item.

Jens Rasmussen

With at least some barcode scanners, you can use a barcode in the
manual to change the settings of the scanner to include a Tab on the
end instead of a carriage return ... which of course make a POS system
easy since you can scan the barcodes continuously with FileMaker using
the trailing Tab to jump to the next field / Portal row.

The other way is to leave the carriage return and simply use a looping
script which pauses for the user to enter the barcode. You can use a
barcode of "0" (for example) to signify that scanning has finished for
each individual transaction and so end the loop.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)


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