[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: How do I tie a field update to a specific scanner?

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It might be that simple. Roger makes some very good points too. But it is kind of unrealistic to think that you're going to find sample code just lying around for a hyper-specific and yet almost completely unspecified need. "Talk to scanner" is not a Progress function any more than "Talk to cash register" or "talk to cattle prod" is. Setting that aside you appeared to say in your first post that you already knew how to successfully communicate with the devices. The missing piece seems to be the business logic. You just revealed a little bit more above but I somehow doubt that that is the full story. But if that *is* the full story I don't see what is stopping you from doing what you describe. It probably is no problem in Progress. Once you get a clear description of what the task is.

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