http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5418 Summary: New itemBarcodeInputFilter for libsuite8 style barcodes Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 Component: Circulation AssignedTo: kyle.m.hall@gmail.com ReportedBy: kmkale@anantcorp.com QAContact: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org CC: gmcharlt@gmail.com Estimated Hours: 0.0 In India a ILS product called Libsuite8 prints barcodes like b0007432. The barcode is not stored anywhere in libsuite8's database. Neither is barcode available in any of the reports generated by the software. The barcode 'b0007432' when scanned into the libsuite8 software is de-constructed like 'b' which is the itemtype i.e. Book in this instance, and '7432' which is the 'Accession Number'. The software then takes the logged in staff's branchcode and does a join on three tables 'Location', 'Media_Type', and 'Books' to retrieve the particular record from the database. There is no possibility of recreating the barcodes for insertion in Koha while doing a retrospective conversion, because of arbitrary length of the barcode string AND arbitrary number of zeros in the numeric part of the printed barcode AND the fact that there are no reports available from the software which contain barcodes AND the fact that the barcode is not stored in the database. But most importantly due to the simple fact that printed barcodes are duplicated among branches. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.