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Dick Moe says: We currently wand barcodes into accession_id fields in SMASH. We try never to type accession_ids in.
The trigger on accession_ids checks for duplicates, but does not restrict anything else. The smasch pages all open with the focus on the accession_id field, so they are ready for wanding directly. The wands are settable for appending a character or string to what they scan, so it is possible to program in a character that will cause the page focus to hop to the next field, if desired. Outside of smasch we wand ids into text files to provide input for bulk upload scripts. I presume we'd want something analogous in CS.
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