[Koha] Barcode length

[Joy Nelson]

I have worked around this issue by placing the borrowers cardnumber into a
borrowers_attribute.  The attribute is set to unique and is searchable and
can be used to logon to Koha.  We simply 'autogenerated' cardnumbers for
the library to use in the borrowers.cardnumber field.  This way we left the
system intact and satisfied the libraries need for 16+ cardnumber

Joy

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Pedro Amorim <pjamorim91 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Chris and Mark,
>
> Thank you for replying. The information on the deleteditems table was
> particularly valuable.
>
> I changed the database and everything went okay smoothly. Our problem, for
> now, is solved.
> I also saw Mark's links and although the same cause, it's a different
> problem.
>
> I guess a possible permanent solution for the future would be to put the
> field to varchar(255) and a new sys pref barcodelenght would default to 20.
> That way, anyone can change the barcode length to their needs without
> having to change the database schema which is something evasive and not at
> all recommended in 99% of the situations.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Pedro Amorim
>
> 2017-01-09 22:48 GMT-01:00 Mark Tompsett <mtompset at hotmail.com>:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > This question reminded of of a blog entry.
> > http://blog.l2c2.co.in/index.php/2016/09/12/down-the-
> > rabbit-hole-making-cardnumber-field-in-koha-longer-than-16-
> > characters-limit/
> >
> > It also reminded me of a bugzilla entry.
> > https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15690
> >
> > I think perhaps another patch might be in order as well.
> >
> > GPML,
> > Mark Tompsett
> >
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