About Pal
The Datalogic mobile computer you purchased is ready to use for many applications, including Internet access (network connection required) and simple scanning into applications such as WordPad. However, you may re-quire a more streamlined approach to address your data capture needs. Pal is an easily customizable program that is ready-to-use for these data entry needs.
When you install Pal on your host PC, it automatically checks to see if a device is connected. If a compatible Datalogic mobile computer is found, Pal checks to see if the client software is resident. If not, you are asked if you want to install Pal on the device.
Once you have installed the client software on the de-vice, it is ready for use. As shown in the following picture, the Pal client includes four sample data collection appli-cations called Shelf Inventory, Asset Tracking, Shelf Re-plenishment and Order Entry. The Pal client also in-cludes a configuration application called Pal Settings which can be used to either modify the sample applica-tions or create custom applications.
NOTE
Since Pal runs on a variety of Microsoft Windows™ operating systems, the screen shots in this manual may differ slightly from the ones displayed on your device.
The sample applications are fully customizable. The user and data prompts, application titles, banner logo and program icons can all be changed to provide a unique look and feel to each application. In addition the data input requirements (e.g. text or numeric) for each data field can be changed using Pal Settings.