[Koha-devel] Impossible to register on Koha site

[LAURENT Henri-Damien]

Peter Mwangi wrote:
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> The library has a collection of 40,000 volumes. A few months ago we 
> decided to migrate to Koha and I have already loaded all the records 
> in Koha. However, it seems the barcodes in Alice Graduate 6.0 were 
> entered as R110483232, R493213232, R004053232. This means the letters 
> M, N and Y were ignored. The current challenge I have is how I could 
> configure the gryphon M100 scanner to ignore the letters. If not, are 
> there changes I could do in koha to ignore the 7^th digit? All I am 
> trying to avoid is to manually type the 7^th Digit for the 40,000+ 
> volumes!
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> Kindly help.
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As you said two solutions :
- I would first try and configure the scanner to skip that M,N,Y, letter.
The problem is to find in your handbook the correct code and setup which 
will achieve that.

- updating all the barcodes in koha is quite easy. But would be in three 
steps :
first SQL update on items table to remove the MNY letter (concat and 
substring would help)
then synch items in marc with a script prepared and meant for that 
(misc/maintenance directory)
then reindex.
Hope that helps.
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Henri-Damien LAURENT