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How to Monitor the Process Control Metrics (PCM) Value in a Runtime View

This article summarizes how to enable quality metrics and present codes and grades in the result display using scripting.

11/07/2025

Details

Using the Quality Metrics object in Scripting, you can concatenate any of the listed quality metrics to the decodeResults content. This concatenated string will appear in the results display.  

  1. Enable Code Quality Metrics on the reader

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  2. Enable Script-Based Formatting

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Example Script

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Now the Barcode and the Grade will appear in the Results Display.