Reading Mifare back to CSV CardExchange 7 Ultimate

Hello All,

As per subject, we now have CE7 Ultimate printing to Mifare cards. As they print, we want to read the serial of the mifare card back to the CSV.

Please can somebody provide a sample or walkthough?

Thanks

Thanks, this worked (we were using CSV with ISAM error.)

CardExchange does not support updating records in CSV files, so if you want to store chip serial numbers to a CSV file, you have to use the Advanced storage-item option that forces always to insert a new record in the CSV file.

regards,
Rutger.

Hello everybody,

after sending the print job the CSN is stored and everything is fine so far but the printer (Magicard Rio Pro) does not print the CSN to the card. The visible field is mapped to the database entry of the CSN.

Has somebody an idea what I am doing wrong? After reading the CSN the print works fine but it would make more sense to do it in one process.

Regards Ingo

Hi Ingo,

You should map the Visible Item as Chip Serial Number and not as Database Column. At the moment you print the card, the CSN is not yet stored in the database, so if you try to retrieve it from the database, you will not get anything.

regards,
Rutger.

Yeah, thought that's it! But the Item was already mapped as Chip Serial Number. Enclosed my project... I don't get it.

Download: Mifare CSN Print.zip

Hi Ingo,

The object in the upper-left corner is mapped to the variable MCSN and should show the chip serial number. The object in the lower-right corner is mapped directly to the database column, and will therefore not show any chip serial number or the wrong one. The chip serial number mapping is ot available yet difectly from teh designer.

regards,
Rutger.

Yeah, I tried both but the upper left (Script CSN) also doesn't work.

At the moment I am using a Omnikey Desktop Reader and the PDF Creator to test it. This shouldn't be a problem or? Because I don't have access to the Magicard Rio Pro at the moment.

Hi Ingo,

In the card-definition wizard, you selected both "Do you want to enable printing?" and "Do you want to put the card on the smart-card reader manually?". If you do so, the card will first print, then you have to put it on the reader manually and then it will encode. Printing the serial number on the card is something logically impossible in this configuration, as the serial number is not know when the card is being printed.

If you want to test, you can print to the Microsoft XPS Document Writer without the manual encoding option. For that virtual printer, CardExchange ignores the card-movement commands, so you can simulate in-line encoding.

regards,
Rutger.