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BHS
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Mar 18, 2026

Question about barCode.scanBarCode

Dear sir I'm developing Teams mobile application, static tab(Personal app Tab). We need a QR scan feature. However I can't use that. barCode.isSupported() is always false. Is there any restrictio...
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Prasad_Das-MSFT
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Mar 19, 2026

Hi BHS​ , 

according to the official documentation, Microsoft Teams support for QR or barcode scanner functionality is only available on mobile clients. However, there is no explicit mention of whether this feature is supported specifically for Static Tabs (Personal App Tabs).

We noticed that the sample provided in the documentation also uses a Personal Tab. Could you please try running this sample (Microsoft-Teams-Samples/samples/TeamsJS/tab-product-inspection at main · OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples) on your end and let us know if it works for you?

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BHS
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Mar 19, 2026

Dear Sir 

Thank you for your reply

Yesterday, I found barCode module is beta(... "Do not use this API in a production environment.")

(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/%40microsoft/teams-js/barcode?view=msteams-client-js-latest&viewFallbackFrom=msteams-client-%E2%80%A6).

Instead, I can successfully scan a QR code by using the existing media.scanBarCode.
However, It has another issue . API deprecated (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/@microsoft/teams-js/media?view=msteams-client-js-latest)ㅇ

I wonder if MS Teams will provide a sufficient grace period for a gradual migraition

Many thanks

BHS