Processing Order - Honeywell MX8 User Manual

Advanced Button
If there are advanced configuration options for the selected symbology, an Advanced button is displayed in the lower right
corner of the panel. Not all bar code symbologies have configuration parameters so the Advanced button is not present for
all symbologies.
Because the Hand Held Products imager does not support configuration bar codes, the Advanced button function allows
configuration parameters to be set for many of the supported Hand Held Products imager bar codes.

Processing Order

The order in which these settings are processed are:
• Min / Max
• Code ID
• Leading / Trailing
• Bar Code Data
• Prefix / Suffix
Note: When Enable Code ID is set to None on the Data Options tab and when All is selected in the Symbology field, Enable
and Strip Code ID on the Symbology panel are grayed and the user is not allowed to change them, to prevent
deactivating the scanner completely.
When All is selected in the Symbology field and the settings are changed, the settings in this dialog become the defaults,
used unless overwritten by the settings for individual symbologies. This is also true for Custom IDs, where the code IDs to
be stripped are specified by the user.
Note: In Custom mode on the Data Options tab, any Code IDs not specified by the user will not be stripped, because they
will not be recognized as Code IDs.
If a specific symbology's settings have been configured, a star (*) will appear next to it in the Symbology drop down box, so
the user can tell which symbologies have been modified from their defaults.
If a particular symbology has been configured, the entire set of parameters from that symbologies screen are in effect for
that symbology. In other words, either the settings for the configured symbology will be used, or the default settings are
used, not a combination of the two.
If a symbology has not been configured (does not have an * next to it) the settings for All are used which is not necessarily
the default.
Enable, Min, Max
Enable
This checkbox enables (checked) or disables (unchecked) the symbology field.
The scanner driver searches the beginning of the bar code data for the type of ID specified in the Data Options tab --
Enable Code ID field plus any custom identifiers.
When a code ID match is found as the scanner driver processes incoming bar code data, if the symbology is disabled, the
bar code is rejected. Otherwise, the other settings in the dialog are applied and the bar code is processed.
If the symbology is disabled, all other fields on this dialog are dimmed.
If there are customized settings, uncheck the Enable checkbox for the All symbology. This results in disabling all
symbologies except the customized ones.
Min
This field specifies the minimum length that the bar code data (not including Code ID) must meet to be processed.
Any bar code scanned that is less than the number of characters specified in the Min field is rejected. The default for this
field is 1.
Max
This field specifies the maximum length that the bar code data (not including Code ID) can be processed. Any bar code
scanned that has more characters than specified in the Max field is rejected. The default for this field is All (9999).
If the value entered is greater than the maximum value allowed for that symbology, the maximum valid length is used
instead.
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