Eric
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BATCH BARCODE SCANNING
OK, at long last, for those folks that bought barcode scanners, now you have something to do with them! Now you there is a page that takes advantage of this (right now the UI to get here involves two tunnels, from All Wines to Individual Bottle View to Batch Scanning view. I will improve this in the future:
http://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?Table=Scan
Anyway, from this page you can line up a series of CellarTracker! custom-barcoded bottles and start bleeping away. Right now I do a server roundtrip with each scan, and I may reconsider how I do this. Anyway, the only rub is you may have to wait a few seconds after each scan to let the page catch up. Once you have a series of scanned bottles, you can change the Location and/or Bin in one easy step. So for example, I had 7 cases of wine which had built up in my cellar. I have been meaning for weeks to go through these, change the bin and location (I store them in separate wine fridges in my garage) in the website and then physically move them. However, the though of going a wine at a time was incredibly daunting. With my new feature, I was able to line up a case at a time (that was as many as I was comfortable lying down on the ground to be scanned), scan them, update their locations and then finally move them physically. The database portion took about 10 minutes, wherease before I suspect it might have taken me more than an hour. Next up: I am going to finally add bin locations to my cellar: take a couple of cardboard cases, unload a bin at a time into these, scan them and update the DB and then rerack. Sort of painful, but at least the website fumbling is nearly brainless now, whereas before I would really have to concentrate.
Please note that this feature is only useful if you have done CellarTracker custom barcoding as described here: http://www.cellartracker.com/forum/tm.asp?m=263
Please also note that there are a few rough edges to this feature that I need to round out, but it works and is quite functional!
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-Eric LeVine
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