Both screens need a handheld RFID reader paired to the handset — see the tag reader. On a phone without one, neither the encode button nor Locate tag is shown. The demo handset has no reader, so these screens are described rather than pictured.
Encoding a tag
Open it from the tag button beside an asset on the register (Encode RFID tag for ). It needs permission to edit assets. The screen — Write this asset’s code onto a nearby tag. — works in three steps.1
Check the code
The app first checks what this asset’s number becomes on a tag (Checking this asset’s number scans…). The code is never typed here: it is the one your label settings produce for the asset, asked for live because it is not carried on the handset — so this step needs a signal. Without one the screen says No signal with Try again. Once checked, Code to write shows it.
2
Connect the reader
The reader’s state shows as Nothing paired, Not connected or Connected, with Connect and Disconnect. Read tag reads the nearest tag and shows Tag reads: , so you can see what it holds before you overwrite it; Nothing answered. if no tag replied.
3
Write
Write to a tag asks you to confirm — This overwrites whatever tag the gun sees when you confirm. Hold it next to the one tag you mean. — with Cancel or Yes, overwrite. Success reads Written. The tag now carries .
Writing a tag changes nothing on the server and queues nothing — it either landed on the tag or it did not, and the screen says which.
Locating a tag
Open it with Locate tag on an asset’s own screen. Follow the beep to this asset’s tag.
Locating changes nothing and needs no permission beyond seeing the asset. If the asset’s number cannot be a tag code, the screen says there is no tag to look for.
The tag reader
Pairing a reader and sweeping for tags.