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. -- Elaine Bradtke Data Wrangler VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 ext 36 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" --Elvis Costello (Musician magazine No. 60 (October 1983), p. 52) _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha