[Koha-devel] Barcode Not Found

[Michael Hafen]

I wouldn't worry so much about what's in Follett.  I'd even wager that
the barcodes are actually like that in Follett, but it doesn't show them
that way.

What I would do is figure out how the barcode is where it's on the book,
and make sure Koha matches that.

Other than that,  As I understand it the Follett BarcodeInputFilter will
remove the leading 0's and add the space.

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 14:55 -0400, Roche III, Edward wrote:
> Joe
> 
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> 
> I have reworked the barcodes in Koha because the barcodes Follett
> spits out in the export do not match what is actually in Follett. Will
> the T-Prefix remove the 2 zeros and add a space to match the barcode
> labels that Follett created? 
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ed
> 
>  
> 
> Edward J. Roche
> 
> Network Administrator
> 
> Solanco School District
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> 717.786.2151 x2437
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>  
> 
> "At the End of the Day, Did You Play to Win or Not to Lose?" 
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> From: Joe Atzberger [mailto:ohiocore at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 5:35 PM
> To: Roche III, Edward
> Cc: koha-devel
> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Barcode Not Found
> 
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>  
> 
> 2009/4/6 Roche III, Edward <edward_roche at solanco.k12.pa.us>
> 
>         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. 
>         
>         
> 
> Do you have syspref "itemBarcodeInputFilter" set?  The T-Prefix
> setting was designed for migrating Follett libraries without changing
> their barcodes.  If you have now reworked your data and still are
> filtering the barcodes, then that would predict failure.  
> 
> 
>         We have found that the DB is pretty much set to latin1 as the
>         character set 
>         
>         
> What does that mean?  The intent of the encoding_scratchpad part of
> Koha setup is to get all Koha's internal DB settings to UTF-8.  What
> makes you think anything is latin1?
> 
> 
>         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.
>         
>         
> It's a non-issue because none of your barcodes have characters that
> would be represented any differently in UTF8 than they are in latin1
> (unless you care about the binary level, and we don't).   
> 
> 
>         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.
>         
>         
> This problem has persisted for several months.  At some point you
> might consider professional library data-migration service.  You are
> currently in the strange position of having created new data mapped
> from your old barcode values, so it is really on you to figure out if
> they are now correct or not.  We can't see your barcodes, your new
> data or your old data.
> 
> --Joe
> 
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