Generating a barcode

[#1]

Has anyone had any success with generating barcodes in Qlikview?

I want to generate a report that when exported has a barcode on it that a user can scan and upload the information contained in the report to an AS400.

[Anonymous]

It sounds fairly straight forward to me. I would suggest using a webservice to which you send a request and have it return an image of the barcode to a text object or something which can be added to a report and printed. Pretty much the same way a google map/charts call would look in a QlikView doc. For example you can add this to a text object and set the representation to Image and have a google chart image stream sent to the object:

=

'http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:60,40&chs=250x100&chl=Hello|World' & '.jpg'

Now, I only had a quick look online but there seem to be such services available for barcodes. Not sure if there are free ones though:

http://www.barcode-soft.com/online-barcode-generator.aspx

http://www.webservicex.net/genericbarcode.asmx?op=GenerateBarCode

[johnw]

As a possible but probably worse alternative, I'm guessing that there would be a way to create a bar code out of a sideways stacked bar chart as long as you know the rules for the encoding.

[#4]

Hi

I haven't used this in QlikView but have certainly used it in Crystal Reports and SSRS, I simply changed the font of a text box to a bar code font, the font itself does the clever stuff for me.

Not sure if it helps, apologies if it doesn't.

[Anonymous]

Ok, I'd like to change the recommended solution to Nigel's. Pure genious compared to my backwards solution 🙂

Just tested with a free font I found here and it worked perfectly:

http://www.barcodesinc.com/free-barcode-font/

[#6]

Regarding barcode generator, has anyone a experience with generating QR codes withing Qlikview ?

[ChristofSchwarz]

You will like this one http://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-5535

[#8]

qr code reader sdk .net

[#9]

It's a good idea, but you should integrate a bar code generator to qlik.

I don't know whether you have already tried this work.

[ngulliver]

Hi, Cory.

Steve Dark has a blog which covers Barcodes. It may be of use to you.

Have a look at :

http://www.quickintelligence.co.uk/using-web-api-images-qlikview/

Cheers,

Neil