Labview 2017 Barcodes

[Dragonrider]

Greetings,

I inherited a project developed in Labview 2017 that I am working on. The need is to be able to program a board with the board serial number. This can only be accomplished via MODBUS. I have no familiarity with that protocol so I am using a program called Simply Modbus. My issue is that 8 different memory locations must be programmed to fully program the serial number (it is 16 characters long). I have created a program to convert the alpha-numeric characters to the proper decimal equivalents. The issue is that the operator has to correctly enter these 8 decimal values which are 6-7 digits long. A mistype will be very likely. To that end I am trying to convert the numbers to a barcode to be scanned in.

I have tried 3 of 9, 3 of 9 extended,  and 128 barcode fonts but am unable to scan any of them, even when printed out. Not sure what I am missing. Looking for any help possible with this.

Thanks

[Kyle97330]

For the 39 barcode types you need to start and stop the string to be scanned with an asterisk.  Did you include asterisks?

However, I wouldn't pursue that route.  LabVIEW has 3 different MODBUS libraries free and available for use and shouldn't be too hard to get running, so you don't have to have a weird Rube Goldberg setup.