Use S-Link to integrate barcodes with your application

Barcode Data Entry and Mapping with S-Link

PASS S-Link enables a barcode scanner to generate multiple entries in a database or redirect the scanner output to a spreadsheet or text file. The mapping wizard connects the scanned barcode to a field in the database without the need for an entry form on screen.

Setting up how the data is transferred to the database is done with the data Wizard or by programming in SQL.

The Wizard

This includes:

- Adding a record
- Updating a field in a record
- Adding time and date
- Adding or subtracting a value from a field.
- Adding or updating text from a single scan

SQL editor

S-Link also has an SQL editor enabling entry of more specific actions not defined in the Wizard

Data manipulation

S-Link can also use prefixes and suffixes to ensure that the data goes in the correct field. For example if the entry field was half way down a list of fields on an entry form you could use S-Link to generate the following sequence after a scan :-

1. Enter scan in this field + Tab Tab to field 3,

2. Enter date, Enter, Tab, Tab to field 5

3. Type in "OK", Enter.

So that all three actions are generated from a single scan so that the data and date is entered and the record saved all in one go.