Since barcodes are always unique numbers, you are likely to find that you would have good luck using keyboard-based barcode readers and a simple web form. In Zope, you could set up a BTree Folder that contained all your book records as some sort of object; the object id for your books would be the barcode, and you could use ZCatalog to catalog all the info, and enable barcode searches very easily. I imagine you could do this in ZClasses if you wanted a quick and easily solution, and you wouldn't have to mess with using a relational database; the upside to this setup is that all your data would be web-maintainable... Also, I think someone hacked some code to decrypt those lame CueCat barcode scanners to work in Zope; the encrypted text would be input into a text area, and when submitted, they would return the correct barcode... Sean -----Original Message----- From: Leland Myrick [mailto:leemyr@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:26 PM To: Zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Good Use for Zope? I'm new to Zope but I'm excited by its possibilities. I'm going to be doing some contract work to setup a database for a high school resource center. The basic idea is that all the materials available for the teachers to checkout (book sets, vidoes, math materiels, etc.) would be on the database and would be set up with a barcode system and wand for quick checkout, much like any lending library. The nice part is that every teacher is already connected on an ethernet lan, so I want to set it up so that they can search the database from their classrooms without having to trudge across the campus only to find out that what they were looking for isn't in the system or has been checked out. The first ideas of the school personnel were filemaker or access. I definitely am not doing access. The point is, has anyone done a barcode checkout system on zope? Good idea? leland myrick _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )