Hi Lori, Hmmm... That can become a tricky one. I know on most barcode readers you can set them up so if there is a space in the barcode as your suggesting, that it will drop the space when it scans the barcode, so it will read it as P123, etc. for Koha. I use an Opticon OPR-2001, Cino FuzzyScan F460/F680, and DataLogic scanners and they all have this option that can be set. I¹m not sure without looking, but you might also be able to tweak the settings in Koha to configure it to understand these types of barcodes... But I would suggest changing the scanner settings is the best way to get around this problem. Best Wishes, Joel From: Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre@galecia.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 14:11:17 -0700 To: Joel Harbottle <Joel.Harbottle@hotmail.com.au> Cc: Koha List <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: Re: [Koha] Barcodes with leading zeros and spaces Joel, I think the problem for this library is that they have a prefix (e.g. p or sometimes P) and then a space and THEN leading zeros. So, they want "p 000123" to be interpreted as "P123" That seems like too much to ask! Lori On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Joel Harbottle <Joel.Harbottle@hotmail.com.au> wrote:
Hi Lori,
We use uppercase letters in our barcodes, for example A70022330679B, and have never had a problem with Koha and these type of Barcodes.
Our patrons records, in their barcode having the leading zeros, for example 008910067. We have also never had a problem with Koha and these Barcodes.
From my experience, they are both perfectly good to use with Koha.
Kindest Regards, Joel
From: Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre@galecia.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 13:38:41 -0700 To: Koha List <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] Barcodes with leading zeros and spaces
Does anyone have any barcodes that use leading zeros and upper and lower case letters? I am working with a library who has barcodes that look like "p 000123" which they need to have interpreted as "P123".
Any thoughts about how Koha would handle that?
Lori
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