Using the barcode control in Canvas Apps
Have you ever had a need to scan inventory in and out of a data source? Familiar with Power Apps? Well… guess what… we can put those two things together! In thi
Have you ever had a need to scan inventory in and out of a data source? Familiar with Power Apps? Well… guess what… we can put those two things together! In this post I’m going to show you how to make use of the very simple barcode control in Canvas Apps! I’m also going to show you how to take advantage the Select() function to make your barcode scanner button look 10x better!
Using the barcode scanner
So! How do we use the barcode scanner. Well, chances are you might find testing a little tricky whilst developing your app that utilises this control as the control is only supported on mobile devices that operate a camera.
Anyway, very simply you’re going to want to add the barcode scanner control to a screen in your app, then using the OnScan property we can retrieve the value we use our camera to scan, for anything we wish to do in our app!