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Once you have a Driftscape deeplink, you can encode the URL into a QR Code to print and post as you see fit.
Use Cases for QR Codes
display QR Code in your visitor center
make QR Code stickers for Points of Interest (POIs) and businesses
make POI deeplinks to Automated Business Directory (ABD) POIs
create an indoor tour with QR codes displayed beside exhibits
include QR Codes on outdoor plaques for POIs and tour stops
QR Codes generated from deeplinks will work both outside of the Driftscape app and inside the app from Augmented Reality (AR) mode.
Creating QR Codes
There are a variety of services to create QR Codes, but some services we recommend are listed below.
Recommended QR Code Generators
https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/
A paid service owned by https://bitly.com/
The free version allows you to create non-dynamic QR Codes and to include a logo image
We don’t recommend using dynamic links with such services as this will redirect to the deeplink and may not work properly on mobile devices.
However, you can use dynamic deeplinks through a service like this to obtain tracking data for URL clicks (note that the indirect dynamic deeplink will not work with all providers)
https://www.websiteplanet.com/webtools/free-qr-code-generator/
Another free QR code generator that has some good features
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/efqrcode/id1242337058
The EFQRCode app is available for iOS mobile and Mac OS
This is truly a free app that allows a lot of configurability on the QR Code generation, including error correction, icon inclusion, and watermarks
While somewhat technical, this app works well and avoids ‘upsell’ since they do not provide or support dynamic URL links
General rules when creating QR Codes
Use the short form abbreviations to shorten the deeplink URL as much as possible, since a larger URL will result in a much denser QR Code that may be hard for our apps to correctly analyze and open
Ensure that the printed QR Code is at least 3” x 3” (10cm x 10cm), so that readers and the Driftscape AR mode can scan it properly. We recommend no smaller than 3.5” x 3.5”.
Test your QR Code in both the Android and iOS apps, from within AR Mode. You will have to hold the device parallel to the code, probably as close as 14” to 16” (35 to 40 cm).
Test the deeplink from an email client (or social media channel), on a mobile device and desktop browser. Confirm that Driftscape for Web behaves as expected.
From Deeplink to QR Code
Before you generate your QR Code, you will need to generate the associated deeplink. For a complete guide to generating deeplinks visit our article titled Generating Deeplinks to your Content. Below is an overview of the process of generating a deeplink, and then a QR code.
Driftscape has created a special spreadsheet that simplifies the process of creating your own deeplinks: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ivqr2KggdWBhqEI30u4vsKbnQq8902bNoTRfvLClPgo/edit#gid=0
Simply open this Google sheet in a browser, then from the File menu choose ‘Make a copy’ to create an editable version in your own Google account for further editing. Do not download as Excel, as some functions used in this spreadsheet may not work properly.
In the spreadsheet in the first sample row, we see:
In the mobile app, this will open the Map View with a focus on the tour and also open the ‘callout’ for it:
The actual generated deeplink URL is shown in column G of the spreadsheet and displayed here below:
Notice that the (optional) toast message in this case is URL encoded, to avoid problems using the URL in email, social media, and other channels.
And, in Column F, we see a note that says that this deeplink is not fully supported in Driftscape for Web.
The POI id is “211652”. We got this from the CMS:
We could have used the POI UUID from the CMS, but that would make the URL longer:
Once we have our deeplink created in the spreadsheet we can use it to generate a QR code, using your preferred online QR Code Generator:
The website used is (free): https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/
And the generated QR Code is:
In the third row of the spreadsheet, we see this sample deeplink:
This will open the actual tour detail page:
The deeplink shown in Column G is: https://driftscape.app.link/yHwwr9ciZtb?a=f&i=211652
Column F indicates that this deeplink is fully supported in Driftscape for Web.
This is the generated QR code for this deeplink:
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