[Koha-devel] Barcode Not Found

[Roche III, Edward]

Good afternoon all.

 

Brief History for that have not seen my other posts.

 

We are trying to migrate to Koha from Follett, when biblio info is
exported from Follett the barcodes have zeros add in place of a space, T
12345 comes out as T0012345. I updated my records and re-import the
barcode field and but when I try to check out a book it tells me barcode
not found.

 

I have be trying some different thing with Mike Hafen. We have come to
find that Koha is reading the barcode correctly but just isn't finding
it in the DB. We have found that the DB is pretty much set to latin1 as
the character set but when I created the DB I select UTF-8 and I also
converted the export data from Follett to UTF-8. Do I need to change the
char set for the whole MySQL or is that a non-issue. I really have like
this product but out librarians have said they will not re-barcode
because on average they have 16k+ items that they would have to change.
I am at wits end with this issue and I would hate to be able to use Koha
because it is everything we want except for this issue. 

 

If anyone has seen this before please let me know your thoughts.

 

Thanks

Ed

 

Edward J. Roche

Network Administrator

Solanco School District

717.786.2151 x2437

 

 

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