[Koha] Syspref itemBarcodeFallbackSearch

[Pedro Amorim]

Hello Katrin,

Thank you for your reply.
Upon my research I was/am also leaning towards a solution like that:
assigning the copy number with the homebranch prefix.
It'll still be needed to reprint labels for the delta items, but at least
Koha will allow for checkin/checkout.

Thanks,

Pedro Amorim

2017-06-26 19:09 GMT+00:00 Katrin <katrin.fischer.83 at web.de>:

> 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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