Most vendors of barcode scanners know how to program their products for Follett systems, so they can sell to schools that use Follett. Those same vendors can help you program your scanners to simply remove the last three digits. Then the barcode example above would look like "0001234" when scanned into Koha. Staff quickly get used to making this conversion in their heads if they need to type in a number manually. Works fine. (But don't expect the Follett folks to help you with the scanner programming, of course!) Also worth noting that a few of the scanners at Nelsonville don't have
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:06:38PM -0500, Stephen Hedges wrote: the ability to remove the last three digits -- but NPL's Koha is set up to check for that condition and remove them ... try that with a proprietary system :-). Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS