[Koha-bugs] [Bug 12348] New: unique barcodes should be mandatory

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12348

            Bug ID: 12348
           Summary: unique barcodes should be mandatory
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: 3.14
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Circulation
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: barton at bywatersolutions.com
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: gmcharlt at gmail.com, kyle.m.hall at gmail.com

Partner has an item that shows 'check-in failed' in the 'Check-in' column in
circulation.pl. When the item is brought up in holdings, there is no link to
click on to allow editing.

All library interaction with items (check-in, check-out, item edit) require bar
codes, but there are no integrity checks in Koha (in the database or perl code)
to ensure that all items must have barcodes. This leads to support issues when
partners create items that do not have barcodes, then cannot do anything with
them. Ideally, I would think that items.barcode should be defined as

`barcode` varchar(20) NOT NULL

If this isn't possible for historical reasons, then an effort should be made to
deprecate the practice of allowing NULL barcodes by emitting obnoxious warning
messages stating that NULL bar codes will not be allowed in future versions of
Koha.

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