Mobile Road Warrior can work with images. Products, Clients and Vendors can have an image.
It also creates Product's Catalog with image, name and price of products.
You can assign image in .JPG, .JPEG or .PNG formats,
or pictures that you made with your mobile devise.
To work with barcode you need to install on your mobile device ZXing Barcode Scanner - a FREE Google Play market. Read more about
ZXing.
Assign Image to the product - Manually
You can manually assign image to Product, Client and Vendor. Product, client or vendor should be created before image can be assigned.
Process of creation and image assignment is similar to Products, Clients and Vendors. As example we will walk through Product process:
1. If you did not create product yet, let's do it now:
MRW main menu -> My Files -> Products -> product list screen: press Menu button on your mobile device and select "Add Product" ->
enter NAME - it is a mandatory field, rest fields are very useful but optional.
2. Assign image to existing product:
MRW main menu -> My Files -> Products -> product list screen: click on the product you want to add image to ->
product detail screen: press Menu button on your mobile device and select "Add Image" ->
if you saved your image at SD card, navigate and select your image; If you made photo with your mobile devise, navigate and select your photo from Gallery ->
3. Now image assigned to your product. Let's see what we can do with it:
To see enlarged image, click on it. To minimize image, click on it again.
To replace image, repeat process and assign different image.
To save assignment, press back button or press Menu button on your mobile device and press Save button.
Client and Vendor images can be assign the same way.
Assign Barcode to the product - Manually
You can manually assign barcode to Product. Product should be created before barcode can be assigned.
1. If you did not create product yet, let's do it now:
MRW main menu -> My Files -> Products -> product list screen: press Menu button on your mobile device and select "Add Product" ->
enter NAME - it is a mandatory field, rest fields are very useful but optional.
2. Assign barcode to existing product:
MRW main menu -> My Files -> Products -> product list screen: click on the product you want to add barcode to ->
product detail screen: press Menu button on your mobile device and select "Scan Barcode" ->
scan barcode -> barcode value will be shown at top row of Product detail screen.
3. To save barcode, press back button or press Menu button on your mobile device and press Save button.
Assign Image and Barcode to the product - Automatically
You can assign images and barcodes to your product automatically.
If you have Product file to import to Mobile Road Warrior and also have image file and/or bar code for your products, you can assign them to products automatically.
Follow steps to assign images and barcodes or just images or just barcodes.
In our example we will use product with name Prod1, with image ProdImg1.jpg and with barcode = 12345678
1. Save image files at your mobile devise SD card at /sdcard/MobileRoadWarrior/images/ ( like /sdcard/MobileRoadWarrior/images/ProdImg1.jpg )
2. Open Product file in spreadsheet software (like Excel) and add column(s): IMAGE_NAME and BARCODE
3. Enter in IMAGE_NAME column name of corresponding image. ( like for product Prod1, at IMAGE_NAME column should be ProdImg1.jpg and at BARCODE column should be 12345678 )
4. Save import file in .csv or .tsv format and import it to Mobile Road Warrior as usual:
Save product.csv file at SD card at your mobile devise.
MRW main menu -> My Files -> Manage My Files -> Import DB -> navigate through your SD card and select your product file.
5. During import of Product file you will see pop-up messages "Product table successfully imported" and then,
images and barcodes will be processed. Message "Products processed successfully" will pop-up.
6. When you will go back to Product file and open product at detail screen, you should see top line with image and barcode in place.
Use Images to create a Catalog for your clients
Once image assigned to product, you can create catalog and sale products from catalog.
1. Go to Product page at document's Full Form: MRW main menu -> Document (like Invoice) -> Full Form -> Product tab.
2. Press "Catalog" button.
3. Catalog with product's image, name and price will be created.
4. From Catalog you can:
a) Select product for document - click on product and it will be populated at Product page. Press "+ ADD" button to add product to the Cart.
b) Look at product's details - press and hold product row and you will go to Product Details page. If you wish, click there on product's Image to zoom it. Click Back button to return back to Catalog.
To select product for document, follow instructions (a). To check product's details, follow instructions (b).
Use the Barcode to identify product
Once barcode assigned to product, you can sale product using barcode scanner.
1. Go to Product page at document's Full Form: MRW main menu -> Document (like Invoice) -> Full Form -> Product tab.
2. Press "Scan Item" button and scan your product.
3. If barcode recognized and matched to barcode of your products,
that product info will be populated at Product page. Press "+ ADD" button to add product to the Cart.
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