Content Manager 25.2 Content Manager

# About Ignore Invalid Labels

When Content Manager is processing the results of a barcode scanner download, it checks to ensure that each barcode read is valid.

Valid in this case means that the barcode is checked to ensure it is a valid barcode for a record, Location, control etc.

By default, if Content Manager encounters an invalid barcode, it will skip any following barcodes until it has determined exactly what state it is in.

When processing barcodes, Content Manager can be in a number of states.

The most common and default state is moving records to new Locations.

Content Manager expects to receive a barcode for a Location followed by one or a number of record barcodes and it will move each of these records to that Location.

When it receives another Location barcode, it will move any subsequent records to that Location and so on.

The default behaviour is to skip records after encountering an invalid barcode because that barcode may be a misread Location barcode and if Content Manager moved records to the last successfully received Location barcode, it may well be moving the records to the wrong place.

If you do use the default and do not select Ignore Invalid Labels, Content Manager will not only skip the subsequent records until the next valid barcode for a Location, but will also write the details of the skipped records to the activity log.

If the user selects Ignore Invalid Labels, Content Manager will assume that the invalid barcode was a corrupted record label or the result of someone scanning the barcode of a chip packet or the like.

Content Manager will record the detail of the invalid barcode in the activity log but will continue moving the next records to the last successfully received Location.

Option to use

If you have confidence in your procedures and practices, it is probably best to use the default because Content Manager will not process anything unless it recognises the state it is in.

If some of your records have worn out barcodes or barcodes on files from some previous system that have not been entered into Content Manager, it may be best to select Ignore Invalid Labels.

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Product: Content Manager 25.2

Topic Title: About Ignore Invalid Labels