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Chapter 13
Advanced Data Formatting
Introduction
Advanced Data Formatting (ADF) is a means of customizing data before transmission to
your host device. Scan data can be edited to suit your particular requirements.
ADF can be implemented through scanning a related series of bar codes, which begin on
page
13-7 , or by installing the 123Scan utility (see Chapter 10, 123Scan ) which allows the
scanner to be setup and programmed with Advanced Data Formatting (ADF) Rules.
Note: If you are using the Wand interface with your scanner, you will not
be able to use ADF rules to format your data.
Rules: Criteria Linked to Actions
In ADF, data is customized through rules . These rules perform detailed actions when the
data meets certain criteria. One rule may consist of single or multiple criteria applied to
single or multiple actions.
For instance, a data formatting rule could be the following:
Criteria : When scan data is Code 39, length 12, and data at the start position is
the string “129”
,
Actions : pad all sends with zeros to length 8,
send all data up to X
,
send a space.