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Is it possible to integrate a barcode scanner into the web application?

We are purchasing tags and a scanner and would like to do inventory in that manner.

Implementing barcodes has 2 aspects to it: entering the scanned barcode into the application, and printing barcodes for placing on items.

The first aspect, which involves using the barcode scanner to read the barcode into the application, is already supported because a barcode scanner acts exactly like a keyboard and therefore is the same as entering the barcode using a normal keyboard: just focus into the barcode field (or set that field as the first field in your table to automatically get the focus), and scan the code and that's it.

The second aspect, preparing a list of barcodes for printing is not supported by AppGini but you can either add a custom page for doing it, or find a tool to do it separately (I didn't look right now, but I'm sure you can easily find many free/open source tools).