[Koha] Syspref itemBarcodeFallbackSearch

[Katrin]

Hi Pedro,

you are right, at the moment a barcode in the item is still needed for 
checkouts to work. We have used another value as a replacement for the 
barcode in the past, duplicating the (unique) callnumber into the 
barcode field or assigning a number with a special prefix or something 
like that.

Hope that helps,

Katrin


On 23.06.2017 13:11, Pedro Amorim wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I imported records with *dedupbarcode* option and some of them were
> imported with no barcode, because there were already some items with the
> same barcode, as expected.
>
> Now, I want to be able to check out some of the items that have no barcode
> information, and tried the syspref *itemBarcodeFallbackSearch*. This is
> nice because in the check out interface I can now input other information
> (callnumber, copy number, record title) and still retrieve the item.
> However, it seems that this search only provides the items that actually
> have barcode information associated with it.
>
> In the code:
> https://github.com/Koha-Community/Koha/blob/master/circ/circulation.pl#L359
>
> It seems that the item is only added to the list of options if there is, in
> fact, bar code information.
> After a couple of tests, it never returns the items with no barcode, only
> the ones that have it. Has anyone tried this? Is this the expected
> behaviour?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pedro Amorim
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