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The requirement is to be able to display a barcode in a tabular visualization from an alphanumeric string. Other applications can do this, using techniques that I think requires specific fonts to be used that render as barcodes.
It's currently possible to use specific rendering on a column value (image, URL, text) - so there's code in there already to look at column-specific rendering.
The only workaround that I'm currently aware of is to load and display an image values.
Got it. Thanks.
My thinking was that it could be possible to build a very simple "Barcode" visualization. The custom visualization would simply use a barcode font to display an alphanumeric string as barcode. The end-user would just have to select an item from a table visualization to display the barcode next to it in the custom visualization. Would this work for your use case?
Would you say that the barcodes have to be listed and displayed in a table visualization? Or they could show up for instance in a text area when marking data? I’m thinking that barcodes may be displayed in a text area using a bit of HTML/JavaScript.
Hello David, thanks for submitting this interesting idea.
I am curious. What is your actual use case for display bar codes?