Question Scanning for Accountability

Mandryn

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Hey all, so what I'm trying to do is set up an accountability system for people that I have to manage (about 120 to 150 people every day). Every person has an ID card that we can scan that gives us their names, along with some other string of numbers that are specific to that card. For the purpose of accountability, I need to scan their cards before they leave and when they come back from various places. What I need is some sort of way to scan their cards that registers that card has been scanned, and then time stamps what time it was scanned. Also since I need to get accountability of them multiple times a day I need to make sure that the system can look back and see if that person's card was scanned earlier in the day, so it doesn't create a duplicate entry further below. If it was scanned earlier in the day then it needs to add another timestamp in the next column over in the same row as before so I know they checked in for that accountability time, and then I can go and find that person to make sure they aren't missing.

Does anyone have any successful ways of implementing this? It could be in an Access Document, and Excel Sheet or some other type of program that would be free. I also need a way to print out the sheet at the end of the day and file it for records. If anyone knows how to do this or some pointers on how to get started that would be awesome. Thank you!
 

mxnerd

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What you probably have to do is design some sort of input form, where you have text input field focused.

When the card is scanned, the machine generate a number string associated with the ID card and gets into that input field.
 

Mandryn

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What's your equipment for scanning the ID cards? Does the scanning machine have some kind of programming API?

This is a programming question, ask moderator to move it to programming subforum.

MS Access Time Card program
https://www.google.com/search?q=ms+access+time+card+database

You definitely will need to do some programming yourself or ask some pro to do it for you.
as far as I can tell its just a plug and play device and doesn't have any sort of software with it. it plugs into my computer via USB but, the cable terminates into the scanner itself as an RJ-45 Network connector. Also, it looks like this and shoots a wide light to read the full face of the ID card
 

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mxnerd

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Google image search results indicates it's probably Motorola (Zebra/Symbol) DS9208 1D/2D Scanner.

https://www.zebra.com/us/en/product...se-scanners/hands-free-on-counter/ds9208.html
https://www.barcodesinc.com/motorola/ds9208.htm

Reference manual.
https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_new_ia/en-us/manuals/barcode-scanners/ds9208-prg-en.pdf

There is no RJ45 (USB, RS-232, IBM RS-485, and wedge keyboard)
https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra_new_ia/en-us/solutions-verticals/product/barcode-scanners/Hands-Free & On-Counter Scanners/DS9208 Omnidirectional Hands-free Presentation Imager/spec-sheets/ds9208-spec-sheet-en-us.pdf

So when it scans the ID card, it will generate 1D/2D barcode & keystrokes. Your time card / punch card program just has to process them. Like I said, if you don't know how to program, you need some expert's help. There are probably some free software out there, but probably won't satisfy what you need.

I never processed 2D barcode though. Haven't programmed for a long time.
 
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