Overview
- The barcode format
- Generate barcodes automatically
- Custom barcode rules and how to set them up
- Barcodes and the mobile application
1. The barcode format
In Urbantz every platform has a default barcode format. To find or define your platform Barcode format, go to the general platform setting:
- Administration > Platform > General > “Barcode Format”
2. Generate barcodes automatically
In Urbantz, barcodes can automatically be generated by the system to ease and automate your work.
To automatically generate barcodes, enable: “Generate barcodes automatically“ under:
- Administration > Flows > select the Flow > enable “Generate barcodes automatically“
With this setting enabled, the system automatically generates barcodes for tasks announced without one.
3. Custom barcode rules and how to set them up
With this feature, a regular expression can be defined for a specific sender.
This feature currently only works for driver preparation and delivery. It is not available for dispatchers.
You can define custom barcode rules under:
- Administration > Platform > Senders > “Advanced mode” > Barcode rule
Example of a custom barcode expression:
- Read only the first 7 characters of a barcode: ^.{0,7}
When scanning a barcode for which this rule is applied, our mobile application will only read the first seven characters. For example: if the barcode is 12345678910 the barcode scanner will only read the first 7 characters: 1234567.
4. Barcodes and the mobile application
Currently, our mobile app supports the following barcode formats:
- Barcode.FORMAT_CODE_128
- Barcode.FORMAT_CODE_39
- Barcode.FORMAT_CODE_93
- Barcode.FORMAT_CODABAR
- Barcode.FORMAT_EAN_13
- Barcode.FORMAT_EAN_8
- Barcode.FORMAT_ITF
- Barcode.FORMAT_QR_CODE
- Barcode.FORMAT_UPC_A
- Barcode.FORMAT_UPC_E
- Barcode.FORMAT_PDF417
- Barcode.FORMAT_AZTEC
- Barcode.FORMAT_DATA_MATRIX