On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:32:31PM -0400, Derek Dresser said:
Quoting Dan Weeks <Dan@bibliofiche.com>:
FYI:
Typicly 852a would hold a "homebranch" and 852b the "holdingbranch": this is not always consistant but never-the-less defined as part of he 852 holding structure. Once you place a barcode on a book you need no acsession number (which is what I assume you mean by "Item number"). The barcode IS the item number. Thanks Dan,
actually, the itemnumber I am referring to is the koha items.itemnumber It can't be NULL, nor can items.barcode. (I think) It seems like I could either make the items.itemnumber just a sequence of unique numbers, or I could make them the same as the barcode, but koha won't seem to let me map two koha fields to the same MARC subfield. I could manually stick the data into the "items" table in the database, but I'm hoping to figure out the "right" way to do this during import so it will be useful for others.
Yep, thats right Derek. itemnumber is the internal number koha uses. In case for some reason barcode changes (eg the sticker falls off and a new one is put on or something). But yes its just a unique number. Starting a 1, and incrementing upwards would work fine. The danger with manually sticking in the data, is it wouldnt get stored in the MARC subfields. Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz