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

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

Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> ---
Hi Barton, I disagree here. I think the bug here is not that the item has no
barcode, but that it seems to cause problems for you.

We use items without barcodes when there is not really an item, like when the
library wants to add items for electronic resources or 'bound with' items,
where only one item exists, but other items on other records link to the real
one. 

There are also libraries that have no barcodes on migration and add barcodes as
the items are checked out for the first time.

We also have introduced a new feature just one version ago to make it possible
to check out items without barcodes:  itemBarcodeFallbackSearch     

If you want to prevent libraries from adding items without barcodes, an option
could be to make the subfield mandatory in all frameworks.

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