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The scan screen turns a code on a label into the record it belongs to. Type the code, let a desk scanner type it for you, or point a camera at the label, and the screen shows what the code names with a button to open it. The scan screen waiting for a code The scan screen waiting for a code

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Getting there

Scanning needs no permission of its own. What it finds is limited to what you could already open: a label at a site you cannot reach is reported as not found, exactly like a code that does not exist.
Technicians at the machine usually scan from the field app instead, which uses the handset’s own camera and works offline — see scanning in the field app.

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Looking a code up

In a browser with no barcode decoder the screen says so under the box: type the code, use a wedge scanner, or use the field app. If the camera cannot be used — no camera, or permission refused — the screen says The camera is not available with the reason, and you can type the code instead.

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What a code can find

The lookup tries each kind of code a label can carry: A scanned asset label resolved to its asset, with its status, site and location A scanned asset label resolved to its asset, with its status, site and location

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The result

A match shows a card naming the kind of record and how it was matched (for example Asset — matched by asset number), its name and code, and a few facts so you can confirm it is the right thing before opening it: Open it goes to the record’s own screen. If nothing matches you see Nothing here is labelled … — the code may belong to another system, or to a site you do not have access to. Labels themselves are designed and printed in the label studio.