OT our shipping software is finally finished

[Mike Kerner]

Since we're talking about shipping software, I prefer to have our forklift
operators having mobiles on their trucks instead of lappies, but we do have
a bunch of desktop (and server, and mainframe) apps, it's just that most of
them are written in tools other than LC.  I will say that integrating our
mobile apps into our ecosystem with the mainframes and the desktops has
been pretty easy with LC.

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 4:10 PM Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Congrats! Nice to see LC out in the field.
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On
> Behalf Of Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2018 6:34 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Cc: Matthias Rebbe
> Subject: OT our shipping software is finally finished
>
> Hi,
>
> with a little proud i am happy to say that after many weeks of "blood,
> sweat and tears" i´ve finally finished our Windows software for DHL and
> Trans-o-flex shipments. This software is used by our own and replaces a 3rd
> party software. There are several reasons, why we decided to replace the
> software.
>
> These are the main features:
> By entering the invoice number the software fetches the corresponding
> shipping address and some other additional information like cash on
> delivery amount (if applicable) from the database of our ERP software and
> creates a shipping label, which then is printed onto a thermal printer.
>
> For Trans-o-Flex the shipping labels (including a 1D barcode 2of5
> interleaved and  a qrCode) are completely built with the app.
> The qrCode is created with a slightly modified version of the Livecode
> qrCode library. The modified library allows to specify the version number
> the created qrCode should have. This is important, as the carrier
> Trans-o-Flex only allows version 14 qrCodes for their shipping labels. The
> original LC library selects the version according to the data the qrCode
> contains. If you are interested in the modified library, you´ll find it
> here <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21428>  I´ve attached
> it to “bug” report 21428.
>
> The 1D barcode is created with a 3rd party Windows SDK from Tec-It <
> https://www.tec-it.com/en/software/barcode-software/tbarcode/overview/Default.aspx
> >.
> Currently the SDK is called from a .vbs script.The .vbs file is created
> dynamically. The future plan is to create a widget which calls the SDK. But
> due to my lack of knowledge about widget i had to choose the .vbs way for
> now.
>
> After successful printing, the shipping data is stored into a database. At
> the end of the day, the shipping data of all parcels and pallets is
> exported from database to an XML file, which is then uploaded to the sftp
> server of the shipment carrier. The tracking number of each shipment, the
> according invoice and customer number are exported also to our web server.
> This allows our customers to query the tracking numbers by entering their
> invoice and customer number. The software allows also the export a PDF of
> all shipments of a day.
>
> I´ve uploaded 3 screenshots of the app if you´re interested. Please don´t
> laugh about the user interface. The design does not match the current
> Windows design nor is it state of the art. Our users wanted it simple and
> “readable” and no small buttons or text.
>
> https://mr.on-rev.com/menu.png <https://mr.on-rev.com/menu.png>
> https://mr.on-rev.com/shipping.png <https://mr.on-rev.com/shipping.png>
> https://mr.on-rev.com/label.png <https://mr.on-rev.com/label.png>
>
> This is by far the most extensive app i´ve created with Livecode so far
> and i am really happy that it was finally approved by Trans-o-Flex.
>
>
> Matthias
>
>
>
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