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Camera Barcode Scanning
Would it be possible to add barcode reading functionality into forms? It would be a benefit to me to be able to answer a question by using a mobile tablet or phone camera to scan a barcode of a serial number and populating the text.
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shiweiwei97Microsoft
This seems to me a general feature browser should support. So far Chrome canary has already supported it.
https://winaero.com/chrome-now-can-generate-qr-codes-for-selected-links/Any progress on this one? Same use case for me and would be great to have a selectable option to use the camera to scan a type 128 barcode
- if you want to scan throug iphone or android phone without specific app, encode a url to qrcode which be visited by web browser and send data to backend database.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/qr-codes-in-access/09b766d2-a759-470a-86bb-f4513340b0b4?page=2
Or build an app /apk for input.
https://b23.tv/Jx8Efnu DoubleARon Forms doesn't have this functionality but Power Apps does. Have a look a the video here by Shane Young.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)
- Hi Sir,
I am also having the same query, need mobile camera scanning option to input text in microsoft forms by scanning the barcode serial number.
Would update here, if i get solution. DonMen2063 there is a uservoice request for this https://microsoftforms.uservoice.com/forums/386451-welcome-to-microsoft-forms-suggestion-box/suggestions/39704686-auto-populate-from-a-barcode-or-qr-code which you can vote for.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Intranet, SharePoint, Website and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)- Hey Rob, was there any solution to the inquiry from DonMen2063? I've built an inventory movement Form and would like to be able to scan a barcode into the answer field reducing on possibility of mistyping the data.
