Interface RFID scanner to import inventory into Wrike

Hi Gabe Schur! Our iOS app has a document scanner and text recognition - does it help? 

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I am looking for something that will scan barcodes and QR codes to enter relevant data into custom fields for inventory management.

Got it Gabe Schur! I'll ask our experts from the Support team 👍 Someone will contact you shortly about this. 

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Hi Gabe Schur,  I'm afraid we don't have functionality that could help you with what you're describing, but I do understand how having the possibility to scan the QR code would help your daily workflow greatly. We will move your idea to the Product feedback forum, so other users can upvote the post and share their ideas. It would be great if you could elaborate on how you use the QR codes/barcodes in your workflow to help our Product team understand your use-case better😉

This would be very helpful. I second Gabe.

Another idea is google Chrome allows you to Generate QR codes. But when you actually try to open a Wrike task for example, the link fails somewhere.

Thank you for adding your support here Thomas Lancaster, and welcome to the Community!

Has anything happened with this? our business is craving QR inventory sign in but even more so we want the ability to generate a QR code that when scanned on a mobile device will take you directly to the task.

As Thomas has stated above, Chrome has QR generation abilities but the code takes you to the wrike space, not the task.

Hi Nick Karakasch, welcome to the Community, and thanks for posting!

Here's an article that explains what happens with Product Feedback that we receive here on the Community. Our Product team has access to feedback received on Community, and we continuously pass on each feedback shared here to the team. They take each into consideration according to the current priorities and plans. We assign a status to the thread after it receives 60+ votes and share an update from the team. Unfortunately, we can't implement all suggestions here, but they do keep them on their radar.

The number of upvotes and feedback here help them understand how popular the suggestion is among the Community members. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Hi @... We have the same need as Gabe Schur described on 12/02/2021: "I am looking for something that will scan barcodes and QR codes to enter relevant data into custom fields for inventory management."

A concrete example in our case:
Our shipyard has a large stock of equipment that we use for each project. This equipment includes electrical cabinets, ventilators, flood lights, etc. Each piece of equipment has a QR attached to it. Currently, we use a lousy application called Asset Panda (which we're looking to replace), which we use to scan the QR code and open the equipment's task in Asset Panda to record which project it will be "rented" out to, who checked it out, etc. In addition, if the equipment has a defect/needs repair then this information is logged in the same manner. Ideally, with the Wrike mobile app we'd be able to scan our QR codes which would then open the equipment's designated task in Wrike. We would manually update the tasks' custom fields (which project it's assigned to, who checked it out, if repair is required, etc) and update the status to "in use" rather than "available".

Wrike's iOS document scanner + text recognition doesn't serve this sort of purpose. It simply reads a document and turns it into text which can be used in the tasks's description or comments. 

Maybe what we're looking for with QR codes can already be done with Wrike, if somehow we could link permalinks to our QR codes (in another database). But it sounds like Nick Karakasch and Thomas Lancaster attempted that, but the permalink kicks them back to the Wrike Space rather than task.

Thanks for your help! 

Hi Soraya Jung, I've tried the workaround with the Chrome QR extension, and the codes work like charm for me. When I use the task's permalink to generate the code, I'm redirected to the Wrike application and the task opens without any issues. Please note, however, that to access the task the person opening the generated QR code should have access to that task in Wrike. Please create the QR code using the Chrome QR extension and test how it works on your end. Let us know if any questions come up ☺️

Nick Karakasch and Thomas Lancaster, maybe a QR codes scanner or code generator were misbehaving before. It would be great if you could give it another try now. Thank you! 😌

Has anyone tried Wufu to transfer the content into the custom fields?