Hi All
We are looking at extending our application so we can gather some information from mobiles.
The easiest example is a signature for proof of delivery.
We certainly don't want to start from scratch and are hoping to find a solution which will allow us to feed some basic data across for the forms to use, have barcode scanning and signature capture.
And then send us the data back to process.
We have found one solution which is almost what we want but not quite, just wondered if anyone out there is doing a similar thing and can make any recommendations.
Googling it just shows how many solutions are out there.
We are hoping to find one that will allow us to resell the soltution as our own possibly with some branding to make it look like ours as well.
Regards
Chris.
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What device are you using? I did something like this a few years back where we proposed a phone app for a museum. You could scan barcodes as you walked along the displays and we would bring back the facts about the item, maybe older images where it came from, maybe a movie about it. The museum didn't understand that as the holder of all the data they had to produce the content they wanted to present. Too much work on their end is what it came down to.
We did it in android and followed their MVC application standards. All the tools are free all it takes is time and advil as you learn what you goofed upon.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 9:32 AM Chris Davis chrisd@actongate.co.uk wrote:
Hi All
We are looking at extending our application so we can gather some information from mobiles.
The easiest example is a signature for proof of delivery.
We certainly don't want to start from scratch and are hoping to find a solution which will allow us to feed some basic data across for the forms to use, have barcode scanning and signature capture.
And then send us the data back to process.
We have found one solution which is almost what we want but not quite, just wondered if anyone out there is doing a similar thing and can make any recommendations.
Googling it just shows how many solutions are out there.
We are hoping to find one that will allow us to resell the soltution as our own possibly with some branding to make it look like ours as well.
Regards
Chris.
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To give you a better idea of what we are currently lookling at, here is the link ...
Advantages so far, we can deliver data to the app via an existing cloud solution like Onedrive or Dropbox and back again.
Disadvantages, it does it how it wants to, so it can scan a barcode (great) but it can't then trigger other controls on the form to be populated with data with us pressing search on another lookup control making it feel a little clunky.
Another disadvantage it cant be rebranded.
Any solution would need to be Andriod/IOS.
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Monday, 08 April 2019 16:11 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Mobile Forms
What device are you using? I did something like this a few years back where we proposed a phone app for a museum. You could scan barcodes as you walked along the displays and we would bring back the facts about the item, maybe older images where it came from, maybe a movie about it. The museum didn't understand that as the holder of all the data they had to produce the content they wanted to present. Too much work on their end is what it came down to.
We did it in android and followed their MVC application standards. All the tools are free all it takes is time and advil as you learn what you goofed upon.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 9:32 AM Chris Davis chrisd@actongate.co.uk wrote:
Hi All
We are looking at extending our application so we can gather some information from mobiles.
The easiest example is a signature for proof of delivery.
We certainly don't want to start from scratch and are hoping to find a solution which will allow us to feed some basic data across for the forms to use, have barcode scanning and signature capture.
And then send us the data back to process.
We have found one solution which is almost what we want but not quite, just wondered if anyone out there is doing a similar thing and can make any recommendations.
Googling it just shows how many solutions are out there.
We are hoping to find one that will allow us to resell the soltution as our own possibly with some branding to make it look like ours as well.
Regards
Chris.
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This was two of the books I used. https://www.amazon.com/Android-Programming-Pushing-Erik-Hellman/dp/111871737... https://www.amazon.com/Android-Design-Patterns-Interaction-Developers/dp/111...
Working in android is not too hard. Learning how to take advantage of the computer it is running was a lot harder to learn. Activate the camera and grab the image. decode that barcode for me, and fetch the next series of data, images, videos depending on where you were was where I spent a lot of time trying to learn.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 10:43 AM Chris Davis chrisd@actongate.co.uk wrote:
To give you a better idea of what we are currently lookling at, here is the link ...
Advantages so far, we can deliver data to the app via an existing cloud solution like Onedrive or Dropbox and back again.
Disadvantages, it does it how it wants to, so it can scan a barcode (great) but it can't then trigger other controls on the form to be populated with data with us pressing search on another lookup control making it feel a little clunky.
Another disadvantage it cant be rebranded.
Any solution would need to be Andriod/IOS.
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Monday, 08 April 2019 16:11 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Mobile Forms
What device are you using? I did something like this a few years back where we proposed a phone app for a museum. You could scan barcodes as you walked along the displays and we would bring back the facts about the item, maybe older images where it came from, maybe a movie about it. The museum didn't understand that as the holder of all the data they had to produce the content they wanted to present. Too much work on their end is what it came down to.
We did it in android and followed their MVC application standards. All the tools are free all it takes is time and advil as you learn what you goofed upon.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 9:32 AM Chris Davis chrisd@actongate.co.uk wrote:
Hi All
We are looking at extending our application so we can gather some information from mobiles.
The easiest example is a signature for proof of delivery.
We certainly don't want to start from scratch and are hoping to find a solution which will allow us to feed some basic data across for the forms to use, have barcode scanning and signature capture.
And then send us the data back to process.
We have found one solution which is almost what we want but not quite, just wondered if anyone out there is doing a similar thing and can make any recommendations.
Googling it just shows how many solutions are out there.
We are hoping to find one that will allow us to resell the soltution as our own possibly with some branding to make it look like ours as well.
Regards
Chris.
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http://foxincloud.com/tutotest/bs/signature.tuto
(Responsive, you can test with a mobile device)
Thierry Nivelet http://foxincloud.com/ Give your VFP app a second life in your cloud
Le 8 avr. 2019 à 18:48, Stephen Russell srussell705@gmail.com a écrit :
This was two of the books I used. https://www.amazon.com/Android-Programming-Pushing-Erik-Hellman/dp/111871737... https://www.amazon.com/Android-Design-Patterns-Interaction-Developers/dp/111...
Working in android is not too hard. Learning how to take advantage of the computer it is running was a lot harder to learn. Activate the camera and grab the image. decode that barcode for me, and fetch the next series of data, images, videos depending on where you were was where I spent a lot of time trying to learn.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 10:43 AM Chris Davis chrisd@actongate.co.uk wrote:
To give you a better idea of what we are currently lookling at, here is the link ...
Advantages so far, we can deliver data to the app via an existing cloud solution like Onedrive or Dropbox and back again.
Disadvantages, it does it how it wants to, so it can scan a barcode (great) but it can't then trigger other controls on the form to be populated with data with us pressing search on another lookup control making it feel a little clunky.
Another disadvantage it cant be rebranded.
Any solution would need to be Andriod/IOS.
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Monday, 08 April 2019 16:11 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Mobile Forms
What device are you using? I did something like this a few years back where we proposed a phone app for a museum. You could scan barcodes as you walked along the displays and we would bring back the facts about the item, maybe older images where it came from, maybe a movie about it. The museum didn't understand that as the holder of all the data they had to produce the content they wanted to present. Too much work on their end is what it came down to.
We did it in android and followed their MVC application standards. All the tools are free all it takes is time and advil as you learn what you goofed upon.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 9:32 AM Chris Davis chrisd@actongate.co.uk wrote:
Hi All
We are looking at extending our application so we can gather some information from mobiles.
The easiest example is a signature for proof of delivery.
We certainly don't want to start from scratch and are hoping to find a solution which will allow us to feed some basic data across for the forms to use, have barcode scanning and signature capture.
And then send us the data back to process.
We have found one solution which is almost what we want but not quite, just wondered if anyone out there is doing a similar thing and can make any recommendations.
Googling it just shows how many solutions are out there.
We are hoping to find one that will allow us to resell the soltution as our own possibly with some branding to make it look like ours as well.
Regards
Chris.
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Hi Chris,
I dunno if you've seen my "Fox On The Run http://saltydogllc.com/whitepapers-articles-slides-etc/" whitepaper from a few years ago, but it's got some basic ideas in there. If I were to start over today I might use the Ionic framework for the front end.
Eric
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 9:32 AM Chris Davis chrisd@actongate.co.uk wrote:
Hi All
We are looking at extending our application so we can gather some information from mobiles.
The easiest example is a signature for proof of delivery.
We certainly don't want to start from scratch and are hoping to find a solution which will allow us to feed some basic data across for the forms to use, have barcode scanning and signature capture.
And then send us the data back to process.
We have found one solution which is almost what we want but not quite, just wondered if anyone out there is doing a similar thing and can make any recommendations.
Googling it just shows how many solutions are out there.
We are hoping to find one that will allow us to resell the soltution as our own possibly with some branding to make it look like ours as well.
Regards
Chris.
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Chris,
Why redesign the wheel. Have a look at:
https://www.supersignature.com/demo.aspx
At US$219 for an Enterprise license, I don't think you can go wrong... If you want it just on a mobile, cost free, you can download the details back at the office.
SuperSignature can be used as an online signature pad for your websites. Users can sign online easily! You can capture signatures from language of your choice Asp.net, Php, CF, JAVA. Works on major browsers both desktop and mobile.
Features Trial Professional Enterprise Domains allowed localhost single unlimited Price $0 $119$219
Johan Nel George, South Africa FOX member: Friends of XSharp Website : https://xsharp.info https://xsharp.info/ VFP forum : https://www.xsharp.info/forum/public-vfp X# Runtime : https://github.com/X-Sharp/XSharpPublic
On 2019/04/08 16:32, Chris Davis wrote:
Hi All
We are looking at extending our application so we can gather some information from mobiles.
The easiest example is a signature for proof of delivery.
We certainly don't want to start from scratch and are hoping to find a solution which will allow us to feed some basic data across for the forms to use, have barcode scanning and signature capture.
And then send us the data back to process.
We have found one solution which is almost what we want but not quite, just wondered if anyone out there is doing a similar thing and can make any recommendations.
Googling it just shows how many solutions are out there.
We are hoping to find one that will allow us to resell the soltution as our own possibly with some branding to make it look like ours as well.
Regards
Chris.
Thanks everyone for your replies, POD was just one example.
I will look into all the suggestions.
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Johan Nel Sent: Tuesday, 09 April 2019 16:09 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Mobile Forms
Chris,
Why redesign the wheel. Have a look at:
https://www.supersignature.com/demo.aspx
At US$219 for an Enterprise license, I don't think you can go wrong... If you want it just on a mobile, cost free, you can download the details back at the office.
SuperSignature can be used as an online signature pad for your websites. Users can sign online easily! You can capture signatures from language of your choice Asp.net, Php, CF, JAVA. Works on major browsers both desktop and mobile.
Features Trial Professional Enterprise Domains allowed localhost single unlimited Price $0 $119$219
Johan Nel George, South Africa FOX member: Friends of XSharp Website : https://xsharp.info https://xsharp.info/ VFP forum : https://www.xsharp.info/forum/public-vfp X# Runtime : https://github.com/X-Sharp/XSharpPublic
On 2019/04/08 16:32, Chris Davis wrote:
Hi All
We are looking at extending our application so we can gather some information from mobiles.
The easiest example is a signature for proof of delivery.
We certainly don't want to start from scratch and are hoping to find a solution which will allow us to feed some basic data across for the forms to use, have barcode scanning and signature capture.
And then send us the data back to process.
We have found one solution which is almost what we want but not quite, just wondered if anyone out there is doing a similar thing and can make any recommendations.
Googling it just shows how many solutions are out there.
We are hoping to find one that will allow us to resell the soltution as our own possibly with some branding to make it look like ours as well.
Regards
Chris.
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