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Using phone camera as barcode scanner in BC


Here's an example of how to use your phone scanner as barcode scanner within Business Central default mobile application.

This uses https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode library to achieve this.

Code example can be found from https://github.com/nocubicles/bc-barcode-scanner

This is not perfect yet as I didn't find a way to remember the user access grant for example. But its a start and usable already.

The example I made will add a button to Purchase Order which opens the scanner and then you can scan a barcode. If anything is found by this GTIN then message will be prompted.