However from my experience the actual applications that scan QR codes vary widely in their adoption of formats for contact information. I made some attempts to use and formats to send contact details via QR codes. The purpose of the ABAP transaction is to map the location of any customer/contact and provide a “quick response” of the map url to a mobile phone via the QR code. ) the custom ABAP code is based on SAP program “SAPHTML_DEMO1” To get started I used the code I found here. I adapted the code so I could generate the image online. ) a Zebra crossing to do the actual QR code generation, (later versions now exist than the one I use).

If you are still unsure about QR codes, then try the wikipedia I have already blogged about QR codes (which are part of an open source barcode application) in smartforms and sapscript here ( Barcodes in SAP with the Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript.), but this is for transaction use. No need to rely on external web sites to generate the codes. The QR codes can be generated and used in any web application or custom ABAP transaction. The solution requires a SAP system with a java stack to generate the QR codes. I will cover technical demonstrations of using QR codes in SAP. I like the idea of a “quick response” of data into a mobile device as I hate typing on mobile phones. Where I live, I see QR codes all the time and I have wanted to integrate them into SAP.

So how hard can it be for me as a beginner in Java to generate a QR code and get scanned data into SAP. As I am no Java developer please bear with me and take the contents as my beginner’s tale and please point out any obvious issues. However as I have just watched a video with some guys with QR codes on their T-shirts at Teched, I thought I would share my little QR code adventure and hope to see some business case examples using QR codes.

Timing is everything and various reasons meant I never got past a small demo of QR codes in SAP.

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