[Koha] import question

[Chris Cormack]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:32:31PM -0400, Derek Dresser said:
> Quoting Dan Weeks <Dan at 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
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