DataWedge: send Enter after a scan
The app reads a scan as typed text followed by Enter. Without the Enter, a scan lands in the box and nothing happens. It is one setting in DataWedge, and we will walk you through it.
Scanner app
Install it on the scanner.
For Zebra Android devices running Android 5.1 or newer — including a good many scanners people assume are too old. You only need this on the scanners; the portal itself runs in a browser and needs nothing installed.
Current version
Stocktake V1.120
Will it run on your device? Check in two minutes, with nothing installed: open the browser on the scanner and go to app.stocktakesonline.com.au. If the sign-in page loads, the app will run on that scanner. That tests the one thing that actually fails on an old device — not the app, but whether the device still recognises the security certificate the portal uses, from a list built into it when it was made.
One page to carry out to the racks. It holds the address twice — as a Code 128 a single-line laser can read, and as a QR for an area imager — so nothing has to be typed into a scanner. PDF, 0.2 MB.
Android 5.1 or newer will install. Older than that and it will not — not slowly, not with bugs; the device refuses it outright, which is at least an honest failure.
If yours are older, call us on 0414 53 53 95, tell us your model, and we will find out what the highest version your model supports is. A great many scanners in the field are running whatever they shipped with because nobody had a reason to update them, and the answer is often higher than what is on the device today.
Or scan this with the scanner itself
- Leave this page open on a PC. The barcode is read off the monitor — there is no point scanning it on the device you are already browsing on.
- On the scanner, open Chrome and tap the address bar. A scan is typed into whatever has focus, so the address bar has to be waiting for it.
- Pull the trigger at the screen. The address types itself in and the Enter that follows a scan starts the download.
Needs a 2D imager, which every current Zebra has. If it will not read, turn the monitor brightness up and hold the scanner about a hand's width back.
Only a 1D laser? A laser cannot read a screen at all — print this sheet and scan it off the paper instead.
The same address as a 1D barcode — bars and gaps, no squares. If your scanner shoots a red line, this is the shape it reads and the QR above is the one it cannot. It has to be on paper: a laser needs ink, not a screen.
01
Open this page on the scanner
Scan the barcode we sent you, or type the address into the scanner's browser. Downloading it to a PC does not help — the file has to be on the device that will run it.
02
Allow the install
Android asks whether to allow installing apps from the browser. That prompt is normal for an app supplied directly rather than through a store — say yes, and it only has to be answered once per device.
03
Choose your portal on first run
The app asks whether this scanner signs in to Australia or the United States. Set once, and it remembers — your company and counts live in one of them.
04
Sign in
Company, site, username and password, given to you by your administrator. The company and site are remembered so only the username and password are typed each shift.
This is what you should be looking at when it has worked:
Updating is the same as installing. Download the new version over the top and it replaces the old one — nothing is lost, because the device stores nothing. Every count lives on the portal from the moment it is made.
Already have it? The login screen tells you when a newer version is out and brings you here.
Before the first count
Two things worth setting on the device.
Serial number access
The app records which scanner made each count, read from the device's own serial number. That needs a permission granted during staging — without it the counts still record, but the device shows as unstaged on the portal.
Stuck on an install?
Ring us. Getting an app onto a scanner should take two minutes, and if it is taking longer than that we would rather hear about it than have you fight it.