Hi Stephen. That doesn't sound too hard. Just set up a continuous form where the scan field is the only field in the Tab Order. Have another field with a date/time value in it defaulted to =Now(). Then when you scan your barcode, it gets entered, focus should move to the next record, ready to capture another one. Piece of cake. :)

While I think this looks pretty trivial, it has it's issues. The Date field on a form will not update without being in a Tab. ie, if you don't Tab over it the field will not update.
I have created a form and just use the records from my ProductT table. I created a Combo / Searchbox and the Date field. And not matter what I do I cannot get this to just let me scan the 1 AssetTag field update a date field and go to the next record. I have tried to set the default for the date in the Table or on the form and it makes no difference. I thought maybe putting it into the BeforeUpdate on the form but could not get that to work either. I would not think this application was so unique but I don't even see much on it when searching. I know I'm getting old and have lost some brain cells along the way but this has me stuck. Would appreciate any help or suggestions on this.
Steve

Have you tried the AfterUpdate event on the product field that your scanning into? Then when it tabs down it should set that fields date. Something like

FieldName = Now()

Thanks Adam! works great. It looks a bit strange as the date field on the form does not look like it updates and the background color on the form turns gray. But looking at the datalog it does show the updates.

The date field does update, but it gets the date/time that the new record line is created, not when the item is scanned. Adam is correct. Use an After/BeforeUpdate event for the scanned field to reset the time.