I am sending to both lists in case this needs to be addressed with a program update. Every time I update our barcodes in Koha (T0012345 to T 12345) it no longer recognizes the barcodes when trying to check out. I have tried each of the prefix options and we even added a blank option but that still isn't working, I export the itemnumber and barcode, update the barcode and reimport to the DB to a temp table then update the items table with sql expression. The records are updated and then I run the following script: perl /usr/share/koha/bin/maintenance/sync_items_in_marc_bib.pl --run-update It runs for like 6 hours (almost 16k records) it gives following results: Embedded item synchronization report ------------------------------------ Number of bibs checked: 13214 Number of bibs modified: 13167 Number of item fields removed from bibs: 15698 Number of item fields added to bibs: 15698 Number of bibs with errors: 0 I go back into Koha and try to checkout and I get a yellowish box that say barcodes not found. I need to get this to work because rebarcoding is out of the question with the number of items we have in our library. Thanks in advance! Ed Edward Roche Technology Support/Network Admin Solanco School District edward_roche@solanco.k12.pa.us 717.786.2151 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. Elbert Hubbard
Every time I update our barcodes in Koha (T0012345 to T 12345) it no longer recognizes the barcodes when trying to check out.
Are you using a barcode scanner to check out? Are you sure it's outputting the correct text? -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
Currently doing it by hand but have tried with the scanner with no luck. Thanks! Ed Edward J. Roche Network Administrator Solanco School District 717.786.2151 x2437 "At the End of the Day, Did You Play to Win or Not to Lose?" -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Owen Leonard Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 9:38 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Barcode Don't Found
Every time I update our barcodes in Koha (T0012345 to T 12345) it no longer recognizes the barcodes when trying to check out.
Are you using a barcode scanner to check out? Are you sure it's outputting the correct text? -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Currently doing it by hand but have tried with the scanner with no luck.
I asked because sometimes scanners are configured to add characters where you might not expect them. I did a quick test in my 3.0 installation and didn't have any problem typing in the barcode.. I don't have any prefix options specified. What I wonder is if you couldn't store just the numeric portion of the barcode (if it's the T+space causing the problem) and configure your scanners to strip off the "T "? Of course you'd have to consult the documentation for your scanners to know if that was possible. We've done something similar in the past. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
That is an idea but I would think there was a way to have Koha except the T+space. Thanks! Ed Edward J. Roche Network Administrator Solanco School District 717.786.2151 x2437 "At the End of the Day, Did You Play to Win or Not to Lose?" -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Owen Leonard Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 9:52 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Barcode Don't Found
Currently doing it by hand but have tried with the scanner with no luck.
I asked because sometimes scanners are configured to add characters where you might not expect them. I did a quick test in my 3.0 installation and didn't have any problem typing in the barcode.. I don't have any prefix options specified. What I wonder is if you couldn't store just the numeric portion of the barcode (if it's the T+space causing the problem) and configure your scanners to strip off the "T "? Of course you'd have to consult the documentation for your scanners to know if that was possible. We've done something similar in the past. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
The difficulty mightbe between the printed barcode labels and the barcode scanner. You should verify with the scanner what the labels actually return: modern barcode types (like Code 128 symbology) will let you print labels which have spaces in the human-readable text, but no spaces might be encoded in the barcode. This lets barcode labels show a human-readable number that is divided up, even though the actual data encoded doesn't include the space. In other words, the human-readable barcode on your book labels might "show" a space where none exists in the scanned barcode data. So if your MARC record has a barcode data field with a space in the middle, then your scans won't match if the scanner is stripping them out. I think you'll find your barcode labels show the text as "T 01234" but the scan returns "T01234" and the MARC record has "T 01234" so no match happens. Hope this helps. Darryl Zurn Ed Roche wrote:
That is an idea but I would think there was a way to have Koha [ac]cept the T+space.
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