Marty - The member number actually is called "borrowernumber" in the Koha database, and is used extensively for indexing your data. For example, items that are issued to a borrower are indexed to the borrowernumber, not the card number. You can always see the borrowernumber for an existing member; it appears on the screen as "Membership number" and in your browser's url window as "bornum" at the end of the url. When you are adding a member, however, the borrowernumber is not assigned until you click on the "save" button. So deriving the card number from the borrowernumber is a bad idea, unless you want to assign a nonsense card number, save the new member, then go back in and change the card number once the borrowernumber has been assigned. Stephen Marty Jongepier wrote:
Hi all,
I have Koha up and running, it is wonderful, especially compared to what we are using currently.
I have a few questions still, just to make our lives easier.
When I add children to a member, the screen will show me the membernumber (borrowernumber), and a textbox where I can fill in the cardnumber. Now our cardnumbers are derived from the membernumber (not the same), so that is great.
But if I add a member, there will be the text member#, Card number* and then the textbox for the cardnumber. I cannot see the membernumber on this screen, and I need that for the cardnumber. Is there a way to show it there? I think it should? Or do I miss something?
Thanks again,
Marty Jongepier
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