[Koha] Removing items with no barcodes

[Joel Harbottle]

Hi,
In our library, when we delete the last Item attached to a Bib Record, the Bib Record is automatically deleted. 
To enable this functionality in Koha, our library had spend a lot of time writing some scripts and a new module for Koha. Now, when we want to delete items from Koha, instead of just clicking delete next to their Item Record, we search for the Bib Record in the catalogue and then in the record click on the barcode in the catalogue record and change the Item Status of the Item to Withdrawn. 
Then, in the module we wrote for Koha, called 'Item Deletion'. We open this module, and then just scan the barcodes of the items we have just marked as Withdrawn in the catalogue record, and the module will delete the Item Record and if it is the only Item attached to the Bib Record, it will also delete that Bib Record in particular.
I, personally would love to contribute this module to the Koha community, but unfortunately, because of the many various components and configurations with this module, it would take a lot of time, which I unfortunately don't have to be able to do such a task. Sorry!
I hope this is of some help in any way, shape, or form.
Best WishesJoel

Joel HarbottleLibrary TechnicianLibrary Services (Tasmania)Email: Joel.Harbottle at hotmail.com.au 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:56:18 +0000
From: deavorj at comcast.net
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Removing items with no barcodes



We also have the same problem with many items that have no holdings.  I'm not sure what we are doing wrong  in our data entry, but we have the same issue and we want to work on this problem too.  

 

Janet Deavor
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Subject: [Koha] Removing items with no barcodes






Hello,
                We have a large number of items that have no barcodes attached and would like to remove them.  I was considering just getting rid of them from mysql but I am concerned that this might have some problems elsewhere. Is there any utility we can use to remove these items and then, when they are gone, remove any bibs that are now item-less?
 
Thanks
Barry 
 


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