[Koha] Fwd: Information about Barcode

[Joshua Ferraro]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Chris Nighswonger
<chris.nighswonger at liblime.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Mohsin Irshad <node.node at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello ,
>>
>> We are working to shift our library system to KOHA. We had a
>> previously installed system by Data Trek, and it is 12 years old now.
>> Our problem is that we have a barcode present on each book and that
>> was used by the previous system. We want to use the barcodes present
>> on each book , in our new system. But KOHA is generating barcodes
>> automatically and does not give us option of entering barcodes
>> manually while entering the data of each book. Can anyone help us in
>> this regard ?
>
> Hi Mohsin,
>   The auto-generation is done by a plug-in which can be changed. To do so,
> you will need to edit the MARC framework you are using. The barcode is
> stored in 952$p. This can be edited by going to Administration/MARC
> Frameworks and selecting the framework you want to edit. Then search for the
> 952 field and select the 'Subfields' link to the right of the page. From the
> bottom of the next page select 'Edit subfields.' On the next page, select
> the $p subfield. Then click the 'Display more constraints' link at the
> bottom of that page. Under 'Advanced Constraints:' you are looking for the
> 'plugin' field. You should see barcode.pl selected. If you open the
> pull-down list, at the very top is a blank field. Select that field to
> disable the plugin. Click the 'Save Changes' button at the top of the page.
> That should disable the barcode auto-generation for you.
Even better, you can turn OFF the autobarcode syspref and the plugin will be
automatically disabled.

Cheers,

-- 
Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
CEO migration, training, maintenance, support
LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS
jmf at liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS