You should have a container field (or create it) for storing the bar code image that will be generated by the add-on. The maximum character length for Code39 is 43 characters, though that would make a very wide bar code. I’m going to use a field that is 8 characters in length. It doesn’t do any compression and therefore it doesn’t support long text objects well. For simplicity in this blog post, we’re going to use Code39, a very simple symbology that will encode letters and numbers. Different barcode symbologies support different characters and lengths. You should select a field that you want to encode as the barcode. You do not get any especially meaningful errors, but the bar code never appeared.)

(I did my first 20 minutes of experimenting with the Barcode Generator add-on in a solution running on FileMaker Server 18. Make sure you are connected to FileMaker Server 19 if you are working in a hosted solution.

Make sure you’ve updated to FileMaker Pro 19.1.3 (the updater can be downloaded here) This won’t be a long post, as the Barcode Generator add-on is pretty easy to use, but please make sure you have a few requirements taken care of up front: Our clients use barcodes to identify products they’re selling, to apply a serial number code to a manufactured item, and to build a scannable shipping manifest among numerous examples.ĭocumentation is limited at this stage, so I’m hoping this blog post will assist others in implementing the Barcode Generator add-on. I chose the barcode add-on.īarcodes are an essential tool in the modern IT world and being able to add them into your solutions without a plugin or barcode font is a welcome addition to native FileMaker functionality. You can check out that blog post and download the free add-on here.įor my part, I set out to pick one of the JavaScript add-ons (mostly at random) that comes with FileMaker 19.1.3 and experiment with it. We just recently published a blog post on our first internally created add-on, the PBS Logging add-on from Kate Waldhauser. With FileMaker 19.1.3’s release recently, we’ve been experimenting with the new add-ons feature in earnest.

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