This video will provide an overview of how to use SMARTScan Tools. Click on the “Play” icon to start the video.

This video will provide instructions for creating an order using the Order Entry program. Click on the “Play” icon to start the video.

This video will provide instructions for looking up inventory using the Product Lookup program. Click on the “Play” icon to start the video.

This video will provide instructions for doing a physical inventory using the SMART Scan program. Click on the “Play” icon to start the video.

This video will provide an overview of how to use SMARTScan Tools. Click on the “Play” icon to start the video.

John’s Journal is a newsletter to provide SMARTSystem™ Users with the latest software highlights and solutions to improve business operations.

The SMART Mobile Suite is a collection of software programs for specific types of wireless bar code scanning devices that extend the functionality of the SMARTSystem Software.  The Motorola MC-3190 is the commonly used wireless barcode scanning computer that operates Windows Mobile 6 and the SMART Mobile programs:

SMARTScan is a major component of the SMART Mobile Suite:

The SMARTScan program is used for counting Physical Inventory by scanning the SKU, accumulating physical counts and locations. The Handheld display looks like this:

When completed the Handheld device is cradled to upload the scanned data directly to the Inventory Reconciliation program where the “Quantity” field is populated.  Multiple Handheld devices can be staged to accumulate quantities of like products.

This Inventory Reconciliation program has many options and can be used with the Handheld scanner, a laptop with scanner attached, tablet with scanner attached, quantities filled in an Excel spreadsheet and more.  It is a great tool to manage the status of your inventory. Please contact us if you would like more information or training on Inventory Reconciliation.  

Our goal is to provide you with software tools to make your job easier and improve your success with quality service delivered quickly. I would like your feedback and let me know if I can be of assistance.

Sincerely, John Henderson

John’s Journal is a newsletter to provide SMARTSystem™ Users with the latest software highlights and solutions to improve business operations.

The SMART Mobile Suite is a collection of software programs for specific types of wireless bar code scanning devices that extend the functionality of the SMARTSystem Software.  The Motorola MC-3190 is the commonly used wireless barcode scanning computer that operates Windows Mobile 6 and the SMART Mobile programs.

The software programs that comprise the SMART Mobile Suite are:

• SMART Mobile Suite Menu
• SMARTInventory Receiving
• SMARTScan
• SMARTPrice Check
• SMARTShip

The SMART Mobile Suite Menu looks like this:

The SMARTInventory Receiving program collects the scanned SKUs until the user taps the “Upload Data” button.  The data is uploaded wirelessly to the Server application that combines all of the like SKUs to create a single receiving record for each product representing the Total Quantity scanned.

The SMARTScan program is used for counting Physical Inventory by scanning the SKU, accumulating physical counts and locations. When completed the device is cradled to upload the scanned data directly to our Inventory Reconciliation application in SMARTSystem.

The SMARTPrice Check program provides real time price lookups and the ability to print price labels directly from the MC-3190 device.  Simply scan the product SKU with the device and the system wirelessly communicates with the SMARTSystem database to return the Product Code, Product Description, Quantity On-Hand, Price and UPC Code instantly.  Once a product has been looked up, the user can choose to print labels directly to the Label Printer, with or without Prices.

The SMARTShip program will scan the SKU on boxes staged to load on a truck. When scanning is completed the user taps the “Upload Data” button to reconcile each scanned order and verify fulfilled orders or identify incomplete orders.

In all cases, the product SKU can be the SMARTSystem Product Code, UPC, or GTIN Code.

Our goal is to provide you with software tools to make your job easier and improve your success with quality service delivered quickly. Let us know if we can be of assistance to you.

Sincerely, John Henderson

Purpose

This document will describe the steps to take to make SMARTScan Tools print labels.  This is primarily a security configuration document.

Making Price Lookup Print

This document assumes that the SMARTScan tools is already installed and working on the server that you want to be able to print the labels from.

The key to allowing the web app to print to a printer is permissions.

The following permissions must all be set for the same user, preferably a user with Administrator permissions since I’m no sure what permissions actually allow access to printers and the required security settings.

In this document I will use the FCSAdmin user since it is not the default Administrator account which will be disabled by security conscious admins but we typically get Administrator privileges assigned to it for our use.

First, make sure that the Application Pool for the SMARTScan Tools is running as the account you intend to use.

1. Open IIS (7 or higher)
2. Expand the node for the server
3. Click Application Pools
   1. Find the Application Pool for SMARTScan
      
   2. Click it once to highlight it
   3. Then select “Advanced Settings” from the right side
      1. In Advanced settings you will need to set the Identity under “Process Model” to the user (FCSAdmin) and give it a valid password to work with. This will be set to application pool identity by default.
      2. Click OK to save after setting the correct identity
   4. Click Stop on the right side of the screen to stop the SMARTScan application pool
   5. Wait about 20 seconds (to give the app pool time to stop) then click Start
4. Click Sites
   1. Select the SMARTScan site to highlight it
      1. Login to the Operating System as the user you intend to use for the permissions below.
      2. Click “Basic Settings” on the right side
         1. Click Connect as
            1. Set the user account to connect as to the user you want to run as (FCSAdmin) and give it the correct password.
            2. Click Ok
               
         2. Click Test Settings
            1. Make sure you get 2 green checkmarks
               
            2. Repeat steps 4.a.ii.1 and 4.a.ii.2 until you get green checkmarks here
5. Close the IIS management interface
6. Open the Devices and Printers interface
   1. Make sure it is the REAL Devices and Printers screen.
      1. Go to Control Panel (not settings) and click Devices and Printers
      2. Connect to the printer
         1. If the printer is local – Install it normally
            1. Make sure the user has FULL permissions to the printer and the Printer in the Print Server settings (add and check all the boxes that can be checked.) See details under #4 below for instructions if needed.
         2. If the printer is remote and on a domain
            1. Find it and install it normally
            2. Make sure the user has FULL permissions to the printer and the Printer in the Print Server settings (add and check all the boxes that can be checked.) See details under #4 below for instructions if needed.
         3. If the printer is an IP printer – install it normally
            1. Make sure the user has FULL permissions to the printer and the Printer in the Print Server settings (add and check all the boxes that can be checked.) See details under #4 below for instructions if needed.
         4. If the printer is remote and shared by a workstation that is NOT on a domain
            1. You must make sure that the user you are configuring everything for on the server has permissions on the PC that is hosting the shared printer
               1. Logon to the PC sharing the printer as the local administrator for that PC (whatever account that may be)
               2. Go to Control Panel (again not settings)
                  1. Go to Administrative Tools
                     1. Go to Computer Management
                        1. Go to the Local Users and Groups node
                        2. Create Credentials for the same USER with the same password you are using on the server. For Example: FCSAdmin / 302Mustang
                        3. Assign the new user to the Administrators group
                        4. Make sure the user’s password will not expire
                  2. Go back to the main control panel window
                  3. Open the Devices and Printers panel
                     1. Find the printer that is being shared
                     2. Right click it and select “Printer Properties”
                     3. Click the “Security” tab
                     4. Add the new user you just created to the list of users in the security panel.
                        1. Check every box (except the bottom one – you cannot check it)
                     5. Click Ok to accept the changes and close the printer’s security panel
                     6. Close the printer properties screen
                  4. Make sure that the printer is still selected and click “Printer Server Properties” along the top border of the area where the printers are shown.
                     1. Add the new user will full permissions to the printer server security properties.
            2. On the server – Install the remote printer
               1. Repeat steps 4.a.ii.2 through 4.a.ii.4 on the server
               2. Do a test print from the SMARTScan Tools -> Price Lookup program. Confirm that the label prints to the correct printer.
               3. Log out of your session on the server.
               4. Test printing from the SMARTScan Tools -> Price Lookup program on a mobile device while the server’s console is logged off.
               5. This worked for me on a 2008 R2 server and windows 10 PC not on a domain.

Purpose

The Purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions about how to configure the Zebra TC25 Android Barcode Scanner for use with our SMARTScan Tools.

Instructions

This section will provide instructions for each configuration item that has to be addressed in the TC25 so that it will work properly with the SMARTScan Tools

Changing the Display Size Setting:

The first item that has to be addressed is the screen resolution. The default configuration for the device is to use a 320 pixel wide screen.  The Display settings need to be changed from large to small in order for the SMARTScan Tools to fit properly on the device’s screen:

You will need to swipe up on the “carat” character between the desktop icons and the lower row of icons to go to the all apps screen.

You will need to scroll through the list to find the settings icon:

Scroll down in the Settings until you see the “Display” settings option:

Scroll in the display options and select “Display Size”. This will initially report “Large” under Display size:

Change the display size setting from Large (Default) to Small by moving the slider from right to left:

• This completes the display size setting section of this document.

Correct the UPC Scanning Properties

By default the Zebra TC25 barcode scanner does not return leading 0’s and the trailing check-digit for UPC formatted bar codes.

The following procedure will need to be done for all UPC barcode formats. The specific items that need to be modified will be defined in this document below:

You will need to swipe up on the “carat” character between the desktop icons and the lower row of icons to go to the all apps screen.

Tap the “Datawedge” icon on the first screen of icons in the all apps list:

In the Datawedge app.  Tap Profile 0 (default)

Scroll down and tap “Decoder Params”

The following procedure will need to be done for the following barcode formats:

1. UPCA
2. UPCE0
3. UPCE1

Please locate each one of these barcodes in the list and apply this procedure to each one of them.

Tap the barcode type to set the parameters:

Confirm that “Report Check Digit” is Checked:

Set Preamble to Preamble Sys Char

Repeat this procedure for UPCA, UPCE0 and UPCE1.

The Zebra TC25 is now fully configured to work with SMARTScan tools.

You can return to the device’s home screen.

• Connecting the device to your WI/FI is not covered by this document.