Hi, On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 1:33 AM, tony.h <tony.hetrick@keiin.kg> wrote:
What are the best options for going about this? 1) Does Koha have an auto-barcode generation tool? If so, where is it? 2) What is the procedure for importing a list of barcodes that correspond to the matching ISBN number?
Another option is this: starting in Koha 3.14.0. there is a system preference that you can turn on called itemBarcodeFallbackSearch. Turning it on enables you to retrieve titles for checkout using a keyword search instead of a barcode lookup. Note that for this feature to work, you still need to have something in the barcode column of the items table, but it can just be a sequentially assigned number. For example, if that column is blank or null in all rows in your database, you could do something like this: UPDATE items SET barcode = itemnumber; You can then set the autoBarcode system preference to continue the sequence for any new items you add via Koha's staff interface. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org