Funny issue here with a barcode - I'm checking to see if anyone else has seen this funky occurance.

We're using a "Datamatrix" barcode, width of 21mil, square with Error Correction Level 1 (whatever that means).

We're using leading zero's on the barcode in an effort to create a 6-digit number, so 1 = 000001, etc.

25 is scanned as 000025 - but 26 is scanned as 00026. Only 5 digits. It'll revert back to 6 digits later on. Could it be that we need to bump up the 21 mil size?

Wierd.

There must be something wrong with the data selection because I have just tested this by hard-coding the data selection in the Datamatrix barcode object to a string value of '000025' and '000026' and both were read correctly by my iPhone.

Can you post the data selection?

Yea, I just noticed that myself - I put a man-readable underneath it and it does the same thing. The data selection is this:

=GetMeta('SelectedIndexInGroup[0]', 1, 'Job.Group.Document')

That gives us the sequential numbering. Then in "lines" I put this in:

=left('000000',(6-length(inttostr(&current.datapage))))

It'll go to 6 digits again when it gets to 100. But later on it'll drop a zero and revert back to 5 digits, at around 300. So 00300 instead of 000300....

fun stuff

So are you trying to pull the barcode from the result of the manipulated data selection?

What is set in "Data" in the Barcode object? Presumably you have a custom data selection for this?

Strido,

If you want to have leading zeros, you should use the right function instead.

=right('000000'+inttostr(&current.datapage), 6)

Hope this helps.
Regards,
JF

This is the string in my "data" field for the barcode:

=left('000000',(6-length(inttostr(&current.datapage)))) + GetMeta('SelectedIndexInGroup[0]',1,'Job.Group.Document')


But since it's also happening on the man-readable, I don't think it's specific to barcoding

Is it possible to post that?

This works a bit - but it puts a 1 at the end of every number.

I think he meant the string that you have in your data selection object, not the object itself!