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SUITS Event management and attendance webapp
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Barcode scanner! #6

Open juliawong opened 7 years ago

juliawong commented 7 years ago

Have the ability to scan someone's ACCESS barcode from the web app. Surely there's a JS library out there to do this,

auscompgeek commented 7 years ago

We have a barcode scanner in the SUITS room — it's one of the usual barcode scanners that emulates a keyboard — not entirely sure how well it scans people's cards though. If we decide to use that, all we'd have to do is rig the search field to strip the barcode text down to just the ACCESS ID. That shouldn't be difficult, I think.

lyneca commented 7 years ago

"Yes" said Luke re getting the access number

auscompgeek commented 7 years ago

We could even scan the library barcode on student cards and search by SID, if people forget their ACCESS cards, or to make things easier for those that don't have ACCESS in the first place. The format of those seem simpler than the ACCESS barcodes anyway…

Probably better to have a separate input field for barcodes, actually, rather than piggybacking on the search field.