Very cool! Nice work! Expanded functionality like this really open Coda up to becoming a really diverse ‘maker’ platform.
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Curious if anyone’s printing these on labels for use in the physical world? I’m having issues, laid out over on this post: Print Barcodes (or any data, really) onto Labels (i.e., mail merge to Word doc)
@Kelly_Claus We used to do that when we used the Coda app and scanning of the barcodes could only work with the app. But it is inefficient because only 20% of the people were able/willing to install the app and less than 10% were willing to create and login to Coda to just keep the inventory in order. So we wer back to “tell the office manager” option.
Long-story-short - this barcode is pretty useless now and we never managed to make a decent use of it afterwards.
Hmmm yeah, that makes sense. We ended up doing the same thing, unfortunately. Really sad - seems like it had so much potential! Can’t win 'em all, I guess…
Thanks for chiming in!
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Currently we use QR codes for Security patrol, maintenance checks and all sorts of other things. We integrated this with Google sheets and use the builder and a form to allow it to create the QR code based on a form response. Then when the guard or end user points the iPhone camera at the QR code, it shows an address and when they click it it says check logged or something similar depending on the case. I then embed the google sheet with the results into coda which is my least favorite thing to do.
In a perfect world, my ideal scenario would be the table to build the QR code but also the ability to read it with coda and automatically log the checks. We do have other cases where the barcode opens a form and they fill out specific information inside of Coda but not to automatically log a scan of a QR code. This seems like it should be a simple thing to do since it took all of about five minutes to set up in Google sheets and obviously if it will create the QR codes, the data is there so we just need the ability to read them and log when its read.
Dear @Terry_Stagg,
Did you check this out?
It might be worth to give it a shot.
Credits to @Eric_Koleda
I didn’t think I had until I realized that I had commented on the post. I guess other than saying this is what I was looking for, I never took it any farther. Now I’m off to find a way to do this 
Thanks!
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