On 2009/11/17, at 5:10 PM, Seth Mayo wrote:
We are gradually getting everything together to move to Koha from Alice. Many of you will remember that back in July I was trying out various library systems and decided that Koha was a great system to get on board with.
At this time of the year, the nitty-gritty of the system is going to start getting looked at. I have a few questions to ask regarding the system but the most important one is:
hi Seth.
Is there a way to force Koha to re-write barcodes on the fly?
to me, thats the wrong way to approach your problem try to correct your barcodes *before* the import into Koha, and save yourself some future pain. a small perl script to loop thru your bib file(s) and perform the barcode correction will do the trick just fine preferably get your bibs from Alice as a big MARC file, then you can use perl's MARC::Record module to do the heavy lifting. after the correction, import your bibs from the Koha->Tools->Import gui, as usual ;) http://search.cpan.org/~mikery/MARC-Record-2.0.0/lib/MARC/Record.pm Mason.