That is going to be difficult - Koha does not recognize the incoming item records with barcodes as being the same items without barcodes. Do you have a separate test system? You could try to replace the records, rather than ignore them, but I fear you would loose any circulation information connected to those items. If it is only a few items that are out on loan you could run a report to create a list of the items, date due, and borrower, and then reissue them once the barcodes are in place. But that sounds like a lot of work. Perhaps wiser heads than mine can help. On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Felix Hemme <felix.hemme@thulb.uni-jena.de
wrote:
Hi,
I'm running Koha 16.05.05 and would like to add barcodes to all existing items afterwards.
I export bibliographic data for one library, including items in marc format. Then I edit the records using MarcEdit and add some barcodes. I reimport the records using the stage marc records for import tool with matching rule on controlnumber 001. I select "Ignore incoming records" and "Replace items if matching bib was found (only for existing items)". After the import is complete, Koha displays "number of records ignored" = 1 and "number of items replaced" = 1. But when I view the record in staff and OPAC view, nothing changed.
According to this mail matching on items is done checking 952 $p https://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2015-April/042590.html. But my existing items don't have any barcodes yet.
Do you know a workaround for this?
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