CASH REGISTER/POS Filemaker Integration

In article
<53494eec-2bb6-4f46-879f-7491c5043935 DeleteThis @27g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
"Jens Rasmussen, Fimano, Denmark" <fimano DeleteThis @gmail.com> 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.

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

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In article <120720081212340930%helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com>, Helpful
Harry <helpful_harry.TakeThisOut@nom.de.plume.com> wrote:

> In article
> <53494eec-2bb6-4f46-879f-7491c5043935.TakeThisOut@27g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> "Jens Rasmussen, Fimano, Denmark" <fimano.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> 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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