For tracking inventory at our fire hall, I'd like to put QR codes on various items that need routine maintenance. I'd like to do this within a Numbers spreadsheet.
Ideally, you'd scan a QR code and it would open a specific numbers file (if necessary) and then jump to a specific cell for input. Each item would have its own code, pointing to its own cell.
Is this possible?
iPhone 7 Plus
Nevermind, I see that Apple script is not iOS compatible.
However, I did find that each app in iOS can have a custom URL scheme to do exactly what I'm looking for. So many apps have this type of functionality. However, I can't seem to find that Numbers has any publicly exposed URL scheme, if one at all. Looks like my only choice might be to build a simple app to store data in a csv file that can be then be imported into Numbers for a prettier presentation.
Well that's disappointing.
Can you see how incredibly simple and useful that would be, embedding direct links to specific cells into QR codes?
The link would presumably be something like this, with a cell location specified as a parameter:
file:///Users/MyUser/Documents/inventory.numbers?cell=b2
or if there were a system handler to handle numbers specifically like:
numbers:///Users/MyUser/Documents/inventory.numbers?cell=b2
You'd think it would be an incredibly simple feature to code too.
On iPadOS? I don't think possible using Numbers.
SG
Useful, probably for some users.
Simple to do, I'm not so sure.
You can give feedback to Apple here.
SG
BTW, thank you for your reply.
Hi SG, you seem to know applescript, do you think there might be a workable approach there?
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