Barcode scanner not working on mobile UI

[peterraeves]

I just read Mobile barcode scanning and wanted to try it out.

On the Short Description on the Incident form, I set the attribute "Enable barcode scanner" to true, but it doesn't seem to work. I tried going to $m.do and opening my instance on my phone, so both were using the mobile UI, but the scan icon did not seem to appear.

What did I do wrong?

I am on Geneva Patch 4 and have the attribute available, so why isn't it working?

[Chuck Tomasi]

Hi Peter,

Does the barcode scanning icon appear next to the field on your mobile device?

[peterraeves]

It doesn't

[Chuck Tomasi]

OK, I just tried this and it worked so let's compare notes.

I went to task.short_description in the dictionary and added the attribute:

When I opened an incident on the mobile device, I got the barcode.

Let me know if we did anything differently.

[peterraeves]

Here is what I see and did:

Here you can see the dictionary entry of the Short Description on the Incident (Task) table. At the bottom you can see I added "Enable barcode scanner" and it defaulted to "true".

If I then browse to the incident page on my mobile phone, I see the following. Notice that there is no icon