Hello, today I want to share an interesting project on how to show barcodes on Business Central pages, in the previous post, we did it to achieve it in reports.
For this example we use the Item Card as a reference, it can be changed to any page that we want to create a barcode.
Today I am very excited to bring you good news. We can finally use 2D barcodes fonts directly on BC Cloud without any external services.
As you might know, Microsoft brought us the 1D barcode during the BC18 Release six months ago, which was a very good start.
When working with an ERP, using barcodes on different reports is a common practice and I think that every ERP should natively support using and printing barcodes (and QR codes too).
Using barcodes with Dynamics 365 Business Central was quite easy in an on-premise environment (just install a font and you’re ready to go) but not so easy to handle on a SaaS environment, where you were not able to install custom fonts and you were often forced to rely on external services.
In this video I’m showing how to interface with a barcode scanner from the web client in Business Central.
Recently someone asked me how to print barcodes in a Dynamics NAV RDLC report. And I hade done something similar, years ago in NAV2009. So I had a look at my code and updated it to NAV 2015.
What a busy december month it has been! That last month of 2015 ended before I realized it. I wish everybody a very happy and prosperous 2016!
The last post in the web services series was about one month ago, so it is about time to post the next one. This time we will look at generating barcodes.
In 2005 I developed a simple barcode system that allowed you to put barcodes on printouts for displaying the documents in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Initially the system was called ‘Document Lookup’ because it was exactly what it did; you scanned the barcode and Dynamics NAV displayed the form in the client.