Barcode Scanner: How to open up url upon scan completion.

[3uriah]

Greetings,

I'm building a barcode scanner that aims to scan QR Codes. Upon completion of the scan, I want the url to be opened up in a browser. Is there way to do this? So far I've only managed to return the url into the link component, which requires me to click the link to launch the url.

Thanks

[Maryna Brodina]

Hello! Working on it. I'll update.

[3uriah]

Thank you for the very fast response! Looking forward to your updates!

[Maryna Brodina]

On service Success you can add the code to navigate to link. You can open link in childBrowser or in default device browser. This should help https://getsatisfaction.com/apperyio/...
http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/2.9...

[3uriah]

if I follow:

1. Component: mobilebarcode1

2. Event: Success

3. Action: Navigate to Link

   this results in having to input a static url. Rather, what I want to know is what code do I use to:

4. Acquire the url acquired from a QR code via the barcode scanner

5. Open that url in the default device browser.

   In short, I want to scan a QR code and on success, automatically have the browser open that url.

[Maryna Brodina]

On service success add Run JavaScript action with the following code:
prewindow.open(data.text, '_system', 'location=yes');/pre
Before that code you can also add code to check if data.text is a valid URL, if not - then do not navigate there.

[3uriah]

Hi Marina,

I take it data.text is meant to grab whatever text is pulled form the QR Code, i.e. http://www.google.com. such that when window.open is used it results in,

window.open(http://www.google.com, '_system', 'location=yes');

which should cause a browser to open up and navigate me to google.com

however upon scan completion the browser isn't being opened :/ did I need some extra coding somewhere? Or binding the barcode component to something extra?

[Kateryna Grynko]

Hi,

You should wrap link in quotes:
codewindow.open("http://www.google.com", "_system", "location=yes");/code

[3uriah]

Hi Katya,

Sorry, what I mean is that if the barcode scanner scans a QR code that has the text (or rather the url) http://www.google.com or http://appery.io, I want it to substitute into:

window.open('PLACE TEXT FROM QR CODE HERE", "_system", "location=yes")

I think the code Marina gave me should work,

window.open(data.text, '_system', 'location=yes');

but i'm thinking I'm missing some steps, such as data.text might not have any information from the barcode stored in it?

[Maryna Brodina]

Hello! Did you add this code on on barcode scanner service success event?
prewindow.open(data.text, '_system', 'location=yes');/pre
You don't need to change anything, just add this code.