If we go to pick an order and we scan the receipt the receipt row is highlighted in green and the QTY field is in focus so our operators can just scan the QTY so far all is good.
But once you have scanned the QTY the focus is stil in the QTY field on that receipt.
Which lead to that when you scan the next receipt you want to pick from, the QTY field on the first receipt looks like this: 5760RECEIPT4128.
And nothing else happends.
That means that the operator now has to touch the screen somewhere on the page to get the focus moved from the QTY field of that receipt in order to be able to pick from the another receipt in order to fullfil the order.
This is a hassle as it is not always easy to balance a screen and scan a code and have on hand free to move focus on the page to be able to scan the next receipt.
Ideally the page would refresh (or made ready to receive another scan in some other way) after pressing enter in the qty field and then be ready for another scan.
Am I missing something here? our scanners are configured to send CR after scan which is logic.
@sisyfos Thanks for bringing this to our attention… I’ve reached out to our consulting group to see how that’s normally handled or if there’s an engineering change required. I’ll let you know what they come up with.
@sisyfos it sounds like it’s normal that the user would need to change the focus manually but I can submit a request to change that so that a quantity scan will remove focus on that field so the user can then scan the next receipt. I’ll keep you updated on their decision.
@sisyfos It sounds like from a browser perspective, scanning in the quantity and typing it in are indistinguishable. For users that scan the receipt and then type in the quantity we wouldn’t really know when they were done to remove the focus.
As you can see from the answer from @cayma it is not a big task to develop that detection.
A quick Google search gives you hundreds of suggestions on how to enable that.
Frankly i find this answer a little bit lazy.
As if you are trying to brush it of as indistinguishable.
Pressing the enter key is something that basically everyone is used to do as a confirmation that they are done with the current task.
And no matter what kind of user you are, wether you are picking with barcode or manually entering your quantitys you will most definitively not want to stay in the same html element after you are done picking one of your parts.
@cetecerp2
I quickly created a litlle mockup to give an example of how it could function.
You can view it here.
Of course you would have to tie this to the current barcodeHandler and not like I have done with 2 new fields. But that is not hard for your engineers to fix.
