Glide is a no-code app builder which makes it easy to create apps.
Dynamsoft is a partner of Glide to provide it with the barcode scanning feature based on its barcode reading SDK.
In order to use Dynamsoft Barcode Reader in Glide. There are two requirements.
1. A business or enterprise plan.
2. A license of Dynamsoft Barcode Reader (JavaScript Edition). You have to apply for a license here and ask Glide’s support team to set the license up.
1. Open Glide and create a new project for mobile.
2. Choose “Glide Tables” as the data source.
Create a new table with three columns: barcode, inputter and date.
We are going to log barcodes into this table.
Remove existing screens and add a new screen from the table we just created.
Choose “list” as its collection’s style and do not display the image.
Click the add button on the upper-right corner to show the input form.
Remove the text entries for inputter and date and use the date from special values and the email from user profile values to automatically add the two values.
In the input form, add a button to call the scan barcode action.
When the button is clicked, it will call the barcode scanner and save the detected barcode to the barcode column.
We can use computed columns to make the app more useful.
1. Create a new Books table which contains a list of ISBN barcodes of books with their price info.
2. In the Barcodes table, create a new computed column whose type is “relation” to match the row in the Books table by the barcode.
3. In the Barcodes table, create a new computed column whose type is “lookup” to look up the price info.
4. In the Barcodes table, create a new computed column whose type is “rollup” to calculate the total price.
5. In the Barcodes table, create a new computed column whose type is “rollup” to calculate the total number of barcodes.
6. In the screen, add fields to display the total price and barcode count.
Check out the online demo to have a try.
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