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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thanks Joe. This addressed the problem by changing the barcode
autogeneration to incremental. It also fixed a label printing problem I
was having. The pdf generator was generating errors because of the home
branch style barcodes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I would really prefer to use the branch style though, so I hope
that functionality will be restored in the future. In the meantime it
should probably be removed as a choice since it is unreliable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Joe Atzberger
[mailto:ohiocore@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Koha] Barcode not being generated in new MARC records<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Bruce --<br>
<br>
All forms of barcode autogeneration except incremental are problematic. I
strongly recommend against using them.<br>
<br>
"Home branch" or "hbyymmincr" style barcodes, in
particular, are not implemented in a widely applicable way. It should not
be used by multi-branch libraries, or libraries with more than 9999 items, or
libraries with non-4-character branch codes, or libraries with digits or
underscores in their branch codes... or basically anyone.<br>
<br>
The query that obtains the next valid barcode for hbyymmincr is:<o:p></o:p></p>
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"SELECT MAX(CAST(SUBSTRING(barcode,7,4) AS signed)) FROM items WHERE
barcode REGEXP ?";<br>
my $sth=$dbh->prepare($query);<br>
$sth->execute("^[a-zA-Z]{1,}$year");<o:p></o:p></p>
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In this case, year would be "08", but you can see the flaws in this
query result in the extreme limitations above. <br>
<br>
You can print the branch and year directly on the barcode stickers and spine
labels you generate. That info does not need to be part of the barcode
itself.<br>
<br>
--Joe Atzberger,<br>
LibLime<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Bruce Raymond <<a
href="mailto:braymond@regisjesuit.com">braymond@regisjesuit.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Installation details: Koha 3.0 stable.<br>
Setting details: Automatic barcode generation using the home branch method<br>
is turned on.<br>
<br>
The automatic barcode generating has been working ok until a few days ago.<br>
Now no barcode is being generated. The automatic setting is still set on.<br>
<br>
Any suggestion about how to troubleshoot this problem?<br>
<span style='color:#888888'>--<br>
View this message in context: <a
href="http://www.nabble.com/Barcode-not-being-generated-in-new-MARC-records-tp19263641p19263641.html"
target="_blank">http://www.nabble.com/Barcode-not-being-generated-in-new-MARC-records-tp19263641p19263641.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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