We looked into the possibility of natively supporting thumb scanners
but there just wasn't a compelling market reason to do so just yet.
Many in the market are still put off by the idea of barcode scanning so
a thumb scanner was considered very radical. The current version of
Check-in supports barcodes, well really any numeric code up to 18
characters in length. The system treats a barcode scanner like any
other input device but can detect when the codes are not entered by
human hands, so it automatically performs the search on that code when
the scan is complete. The trick here is the code itself is found on
the keyfob held by the person. With a thumb scanner the data is held
in a separate database. The scan on the fingerprint is performed and
then matched against a database of values. Once it is verified as good
that matching "code" would need to be passed to the Check-in app. I
don't see how this would be possible until we support this feature
natively within the app. The only possibility I could think of right
now would be to perform store the matching thumbscan code within F1 (if
the code could be determined) and then lookup that value within Data
Exchange (our XML API).
Curtis Simmons