SambaPOS Forum
English Boards => V3 Development => Topic started by: JohnS on August 11, 2013, 01:20:46 am
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Emre,
While getting the data from an existing system to load into SambaPOS, I have found a few issues. Now these issues are more due to an Inventory System v's a POS System kind of barcoding, and staff stupidity.
They use alphanumeric Code39 barcodes on their products which is the supplier part# for the most part, for example
MBTX4U
11-MCJ-42
33-55-108
43-HF1-34
9341913087766
A0341M29579
S12XC90/90-21
Now the majority of the barcodes scan ok, but this is what I have found
1. If the barcode has an 'X' in it, it will not scan - X means quantity to the NumberPad so this is understandable
2. If the barcode has '-1' or '-2', etc in it, it removes the '-' and adds it to the front of the scanned barcode - No match
3. If the barcode has '-0' first then '0-1', etc, it works ok.
Now my first idea was, most products have EAN barcodes, so lets just relabel all products (yes every product has a custom barcode), but there is 4000 products :( and the EAN barcode is not in the old system.
Further to this, some product descriptions are very generic and duplicated too - more cleanup of the data required.
Is there any workaround for these issues, or do I need to suck it up and do it all from scratch properly.
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Haha I've implemented dynamic / parametric usages for everything I've hardcoded in V2 but we still have things that needs to be improved. I couldn't find a quick workaround but we can improve barcode handling in next releases.
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Could we use a user definable prefix to tell the NumberPad not to modify what is scanned. Like using # as a prefix?
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Maybe we should not modify it at all. I have to do something to easily configure such things for flexible configuration or we'll have a prefix hell :)
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Can we say if X is upper case it is barcode? I'm planning to add a setting for "quantity separators" and it will have default value of "x,X". If all barcode is uppercase you can clear upper case X and use lower case x for quantity separator. It will mean 2x4XDFL234 will execute 4XDFL234 barcode with quantity 2
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OK. I've coded it :) If it does not solve our problem we can try another solution.
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That should work well. I always use upper case for barcodes.
What about '-1' etc within the barcode? The '-' is moved to the front of the barcode automatically if it is followed by a number other than zero.
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I've just handled it too. Thank you for the reminder :)
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Please stop teasing :) When can I test ?
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Here https://github.com/emreeren/SambaPOS-3/releases/tag/V3.0.23-Beta
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:D
Looking really good. Works with everything I can throw at it.
Tomorrow morning I will test with live data. If all goes well, we will launch next Monday :)
Thank you so much.
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Great... let me watch the fireworks :)
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So far not one issue. Except for stock not in the system :(
Installing the system this afternoon for testing and training :)