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Show barcode keyboard button

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  • September 10, 2025
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Harm Horstman
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We have deployed an application for use on a ZEBRA scanner device.

The application functions smoothly and intuitively, with one exception.

It is designed around barcode scanning, and in over 95% of cases, the process can be completed simply by scanning barcodes. To support this workflow, the SuppressBarcodeKeyboard setting is enabled (Yes), which hides the on-screen keyboard.

However, this has a side effect: users are unable to manually enter codes using the keyboard. This becomes problematic when barcodes are either inaccessible to the scanner or damaged.

To address this, we would like to add an action button within the barcode control that allows users to activate the keyboard when needed.

Something like this:


We hope this is possible.

Alternatively, is there another workaround you would recommend?

 

 

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Jeroen van den Belt
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Arie V
Community Manager
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  • December 8, 2025
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Arie V
Community Manager
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  • December 17, 2025

We aim to implement this Idea during the current Universal sprint. A few things that are maybe worth mentioning here:

  • Going forward, we intend to suppress the virtual Keyboard by default for the Barcode/Cortex controls, thus eliminating the need for the extended property SuppressBarcodeKeyboard. As a result, support for that extended property will be removed.
  • We indeed intend to add a Keyboard button to the Barcode control, which will allow the user to activate a virtual Keyboard on a touch device in case a Barcode isn’t scannable for whatever reason.
    • This means the Barcode control will show 2 buttons by default: a keyboard and a camera button. If you’d wish to hide both buttons, you can use the setting ‘Show action button = never’ on Domain. If you’d wish to hide one of those buttons but not the other, you’ll have to resort to Custom CSS.

Note that this causes a change in behavior for customers who DON’T use the extended property at the moment: for touch devices the virtual keyboard will NO LONGER automatically pop-up when activating the Barcode control, as in the default/ideal situation either the Barcode scanner (which is usually behaving itself as a ‘keyboard’) or the Camera will suffice in scanning the Barcode/QR code.


Arie V
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  • December 17, 2025
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