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:

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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:

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In addition, is there a way to force an exact search in the materials catalog?

-----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@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@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