Insert a QR Code® into Your SAP System

Insert a QR Code^® into Your SAP System

Here are the steps to insert a QR Code^® 2D bar code into your SAP system.

Precautions

• Make sure you have a copy of a SAPWIN based device type (e.g. copy device type SWIN to ZSWIN – see our manual 6 Create a Device Type Copy).
• Assign this device type to a printer – see manual 7 Assign the Device Type to a Printer.
• You can test your TBarCode/SAPwin installation by printing the SAPSCRIPT- BARCODETEST (client 00) - see our manual 9 Test Barcode Printing. If this SAPscript document does not exist you can request it from our support.

Add QR Code System Bar Code

• Use Transaction SE73 – System Bar codes (see manual 12.2.1 New System Barcode). Add a new system bar code (name space Z... e.g. name = ZQRCODE) as conventional system bar code ("old" bar code technology).

Define QR Code Printer Barcode

• Enter Transaction SE73 – Printer bar codes. Follow the steps in the manual section "8 Define Printer Barcodes".
• Select ZQRCODE and add a new prefix for it (e.g. SBP91), as for the suffix you can use the existing suffix SBS01.

• Edit the prefix (SBP91) and enter the control sequence: bC=QR2,M=508,D=

  Make sure that the prefix Variant is set to 5, you can change that in transaction SPAD. The Printcontrol must be marked Extended (see manual 23.4.4 Wrong Variant of Print-Control Prefix).

Add QR Code Character Format (Style)

There are multiple ways to insert a barcode into your form (see manual 11 Using Barcodes in SAP). If you decided to use a bar code character format (preferred way), you have to add ZQRCODE as new available character format to your style.

• Edit the style you have assigned to your form and add ZQRCODE as new barcode character format.
• Use transaction SE72 for editing SAPscript styles.
• Use transaction SmartStyles for editing Smart Form styles (see manual 11.2.2)

More Printcontrols

• QR-Code with UTF-8 encoding (e.g. for Chinese characters):

  bC=QRC,M=1016,CP=6,D=

  Note: Needs TBarCode/SAPwin 10.1 in combination with SAPSprint 730 Patch 16 and/or SAPGUI 730 Patch 10 or newer. A device type with Unicode support (SWINCF or SWINCFC) must be used.