[Koha] Problem with migrating barcodes

[Bob Birchall]

Hi Clint,
It may be that the Karant software performs a transformation on what is 
stored in the DB to arrive at the barcode number attached to the 
physical item.

As Fauzi attests, Softlink's Alice has a particular nasty whereby the 
physical barcode contains a capitalized alpha character that is not 
stored in the db.  The algorithm for discovering the character involves 
a mod 11 calculation and then the use of a look-up table.

Why anyone would do that, you'd have to ask them.  I am not familiar 
with Karant so have no idea whether or not this is what is going on for you.

Hope it helps anyway,
Bob Birchall
Calyx

On 06/03/16 17:46, clint.deckard wrote:
> Thank you for the information. How did you solve the problem in the 
> case of Alice?
>
> Clint.
>
> fauzi @ poizi Abu Bakar wrote:
>> Dear Clint' physical barcode such as T20132X  2685'We had a same 
>> problem with Alice for windows few years back.Seems like the physical 
>> barcode number is padded (initialised) with client code, etc in the 
>> scanner itself; the actual barcode is as stored in the db.Kind 
>> regardsfauzi
>>     On Sunday, 6 March 2016, 10:31, Eric Bégin 
>> <eric.begin at inlibro.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>     Clint,
>> Can you tell us more about how you migrating your data ?
>> Are you able to confirm than the export from MS Access was in the 
>> right format ?
>> Cheers,
>> Eric BéginSolutions inLibro inc.
>>
>> -------- Message d'origine --------
>> De : "clint.deckard" <clint.deckard at frontiers.co.nz> Date : 
>> 05/03/2016  20:53  (GMT-05:00) À : Koha-List 
>> <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz> Objet : [Koha] Problem with migrating barcodes
>> I have been asked to migrate an M$ Access based library system, 
>> Karant, which as developed locally by a gentleman that no longer 
>> supports the software.
>> The problem is a physical barcode such as T20132X  2685 is recorded 
>> in the database as 120132.
>> I wonder if anyone can point me towards what might be happening please.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Clint.