You should also investigate the T-prefix option in systempreference "itemBarcodeInputFilter".<br><br>Basically, Follett had intentional divergence between the data represented in the database as the barcode and the printed form. A tranformation was used to make one match the other when scanned. This is a serious pain for migration purposes.<br>
<br>--Joe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Roche III, Edward <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward_roche@solanco.k12.pa.us">edward_roche@solanco.k12.pa.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p>Good Afternoon All </p>
<p>I am in need of a SQL statement to update my barcode field
in the items table. When we exported our catalog from Follett it removed a
space that was in out barcodes so now when we try to scan an item it is not
being found because the barcode field in Koha is missing the space. What I have
done so far:</p>
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</span></span>Export from the items table: itemnumber and barcode</p>
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</span></span>Added the space back into the barcode field</p>
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</span></span>Created a temp table in the koha db</p>
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</span></span>Imported the data into the temp table</p>
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<p>I now need to move the data from the temp table over to the items
table to update the barcode field.</p>
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<p>Any thoughts? </p>
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<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Ed</p>
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<p>Edward J. Roche</p>
<p>Network Administrator</p>
<p>Solanco School District</p>
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