Hello,

My library is having the same problem as the one below, described by Elaine Bradtke (re: “is there a way to auto-generate 001 fields in Koha?). We are using Koha version 3.00.01.005.

Have any of you encountered this before? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

-Zack

From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Elaine Bradtke
Sent: November-30-10 12:48 PM
To: koha
Subject: [Koha] Control number fields (001)

Is there a way to auto generate 001 fields in Koha?

We already have numbers that came in with uploaded records from our old database.

Anything we download will likely have a control number  from the original cataloguing agency - which I'm thinking of modifying by adding a letter prefix, so it can't possibly duplicate what we've already got in the system.  

But what about original cataloguing?  I'd hate to think we just have to guess. . . 

Just off the top of my head, using YYYYMMDD followed by a two digit sequential number should do the trick. But it would be a lot easier if something like that could be auto generated.  It's unlikely we would ever have more than one person cataloguing at once, but one never knows.

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