# Should I use Transaction Group for this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [February 11, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/should-i-use-transaction-group-for-this/7988 "2014-02-11T19:44:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cire3621](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@cire3621](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cire3621)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/should-i-use-transaction-group-for-this/7988/21 "2014-02-17T19:57:28Z")
Well I got the data registers to pull in as a string, but its not pulling in everything. Its pulling in the first 4 digits of the card number, but not the 5th. I am assuming it is because the last register only contains 1 digit. I don’t know if I should flip the bits in the last register in the PLC or do something in ignition. [attachment=1]Ascii String.PNG[/attachment] [attachment=0]DesignerString.PNG[/attachment] ---
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 11:14am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/should-i-use-transaction-group-for-this/7988/22 "2014-02-18T11:14:08Z")
Yeah, it’s seeing a null character before getting to the ‘5’. [attachment=1]2014-02-18\_5-54-02.png[/attachment] You had it working when it was up in the D10000 range, didn’t you? The last digit was on the high byte. [attachment=0]2014-02-18\_5-54-27.png[/attachment] ---
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/should-i-use-transaction-group-for-this/7988/23 "2014-02-18T11:37:16Z")
[quote=“cire3621”]Well I got the data registers to pull in as a string, but its not pulling in everything. Its pulling in the first 4 digits of the card number, but not the 5th. I am assuming it is because the last register only contains 1 digit. I don’t know if I should flip the bits in the last register in the PLC or do something in ignition. [/quote] Anyway, to answer the question… sorry. 😊 You can shift that last register over one byte: [attachment=0]2014-02-18\_6-15-56.png[/attachment] To move on, after you shift it over, you can then OR in the comma that we talked about earlier: [attachment=1]2014-02-18\_6-25-40.png[/attachment] 44 is the ASCII code for ‘,’ After that, If you stick the PIN number in at D1003, that will give you the entire input string for Ignition. ---
**Author:** ![cire3621](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@cire3621](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cire3621)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/should-i-use-transaction-group-for-this/7988/24 "2014-02-18T17:21:33Z")
Actually the Idec manual was wrong it works with any data register to send ASCII no conversion…only reason it moved the 5 past the null mark was because I had a delimiter in my set up. I got them all back in line without having to flip the bits. But I still can not get a comma in. When I use the OR function it changes its value to a dash. I monitored the binary and noticed with the card number and the 44 ASCII or code it is turning on bit 0 which is in turn making the wrong character come across. I have a meeting set up with our IDEC reps to figure out why it is so difficult to just add an ASCII character to the next 8 bits of data. ---
**Author:** ![cire3621](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@cire3621](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cire3621)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/should-i-use-transaction-group-for-this/7988/25 "2014-02-18T19:16:28Z")
Jordan - I started messing with my Wiegand 26 bit to ASCII 16 bit RS232 converter and rigged it to make it send a comma after the last card number. So thanks so much since I never really dealt with ASCII in the past Im a modbus guy. But now Ill rig up a screen and make sure the ascii pin number comes through with the rest of the string as It should…thank you so much for your help…I might i have a question here or their but you have been awesome with all of your insight. ![:prayer:](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/e5a7e3b63facc151ea73e3b45db7bdb3d4bdc316.gif ":prayer:") ---
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/should-i-use-transaction-group-for-this/7988/26 "2014-02-18T20:17:56Z")
Cool! Glad things are moving forward! 😃 [Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/should-i-use-transaction-group-for-this/7988.md?page=1)