[Koha] It DOES work. Koha: staff client searching by card number

[Linda Culberson]

All,
It does work in check out!!  It is just in searching the patron's that 
it doesn't.  Surely, the staff will accept that.  Surely.  I hope.

I apologize for my panic. We'll just use the name when searching for 
patrons and continue with our current procedure when checking out items.

Linda

On 4/6/2011 1:46 PM, Linda Culberson wrote:
> All,
> I tested the various suggestions. On our version, 3.02.02.003, putting
> an asterisk in front of the number made no difference in the result. A
> search of my number pulled up 1540 results. Adding the first letter of
> my last name cut it down to 552. Using the first two letters did cut it
> down to 26. Using my number and my full first name was 28 (mainly
> because it got those "Belinda" and "Malinda" and "Melinda" etc.)
>
> A coworker's results were worse. Her card number pulled up 6358 results,
> adding the first letter of her last name cut it to 2837, and the first
> two letters to 249. Using her number and her full last name (which is
> admittedly a common name - almost as bad as "Linda") got it down to 17.
>
> So basically, for us, searching by cardnumber doesn't really seem to
> work, and so our checkout procedure will have to be reworked. We had
> been swiping the patron's card and then the item's barcode. This won't
> work in Koha, apparently.
>
> Thanks to all who answered.
>
> Linda
>
> On 1:59 PM, Tim McMahon wrote:
>> In the staff interface, you can add an asterisk * before the barcode to
>> get the exact item. Something like *36431 instead of just 36431.
>>
>> On 04/06/2011 11:10 AM, Hal Bright wrote:
>>> In addition, is there a way to force an exact search in the materials
>>> catalog?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz
>>> [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Linda Culberson
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 5:18 PM
>>> To: koha
>>> Subject: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number
>>>
>>> Everyone,
>>> Another newbie question: Is there a way in the staff client to search by
>>> the exact card number? It seems to be using wild cards before and
>>> after. For example, a search for "643" pulls up 1643", "36431" and
>>> everything else that contains "643" with 643 in the list. We want it
>>> to pull up only the one 643. I'm assuming it isn't acceptable to
>>> change member.pl?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>
>

-- 
Linda Culberson			lculber at mdah.state.ms.us
Archives and Records Services Division
Ms. Dept. of Archives & History
P. O. Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205-0571
Telephone:  601/576-6873
Facsimile:  601/576-6824