Hi,<br>Have tried both of these suggestions but get something like 'No results match your search for 'nb,wrdl:9780143018674" in Catalog.'<br>Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/7 Chris Cormack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@bigballofwax.co.nz">chris@bigballofwax.co.nz</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2009/9/7 Mark Osborne <<a href="mailto:mosborne@ashs.school.nz">mosborne@ashs.school.nz</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hello,<br>
> I'm grappling with something exciting at the moment but would like some help<br>
> from the Koha community. I have a brand new Google Android phone, which has<br>
> on it an app called Barcode Scanner. It works by using the phone's camera as<br>
> a barcode reader to scan an item's ISBN then search something like Amazon or<br>
> Google Books to find a match (which you can obviously use to purchase the<br>
> item). Think of seeing a good book your friend has, scanning the barcode and<br>
> ordering a copy for yourself.<br>
><br>
> Where Koha comes in is that it offers one the ability to enter a 'custom<br>
> search' URL. So I started to think: what if I set this to be my library's<br>
> OPAC and did an ISBN search of Koha? That would give me the ability to<br>
> search my Koha using a smartphone barcode scanner. The problem is, I can't<br>
> get any results returned. I've set the 'custom search' URL to be<br>
> http://<library server>/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=%s (where %s is the<br>
> ISBN returned by the barcode scanner.)<br>
><br>
> The problem is that I can't get any results returned. The ISBN I'm using to<br>
> test it is 9780143018674 but the page I end up on is 'No result found! No<br>
> results match your search for 9780143018674.' Is there a special URL I<br>
> should use to complete an ISBN search?<br>
> Can anyone help me?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Hi Mark<br>
<br>
Try<br>
<br>
<a href="http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=nb&q=0060513713&sort_by=relevance&do=Search" target="_blank">http://opac.koha.workbuffer.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=nb&q=0060513713&sort_by=relevance&do=Search</a><br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Chris<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Hei konā mai,<br><br>Mark Osborne<br>Deputy Principal,<br>Albany Senior High School.<br>