Using document barcodes and barcode scanners can make document management easier. Currently, the product supports one-dimensional (1D) barcodes.
Scanning a barcode on "paper" document , helps easily locate the corresponding "electronic" document in the system. Also, scanning barcodes allows you to group paper documents by their type and internal number at your workplace. For example, if you have a printed Invoice with barcode, open the list of Invoices in your system, scan the barcode, and an electronic version of the Invoice immediately opens in the system.
For adding scanners as peripherals to the application, refer to Adding a barcode scanner.
Setting up the functionality of document barcodes
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Then, click the Document Prefixes link on the same form – the Document Prefixes form opens. Here, you can view the list of various types of documents (available in accordance with the configured functionality) with prefixes used in document numbers. Green marks in the Use Print Form Barcodes column indicate whether barcodes will be used in the "paper" versions of specific documensdocuments. Initially, there could be no green marks.
The Document Prefixes form
To add barcodes to printed versions of documents of specific types, select the document type and double-click it. The Document Prefixes dialog box appears.
The Document Prefixes dialog box
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Open any document and click Print on the form toolbar – a version of the document for printing will be generated.
A printed version of Invoice
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