[Koha-devel] Impossible to register on Koha site

[Joe Atzberger]

You could also look at coding a new barcode input filter, used in
C4::Circulation, sub barcodedecode().

You would want:
$barcode =~ s/^(......)[MNY](.+)$/$1$2/;

--Joe

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:19 AM, LAURENT Henri-Damien <laurenthdl at alinto.com
> wrote:

> Peter Mwangi wrote:
> >
> > Dear Collegues,
> >
> > 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!
> >
> > Kindly help.
> >
>
> 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.
> --
> Henri-Damien LAURENT
> _______________________________________________
> Koha-devel mailing list
> Koha-devel at lists.koha.org
> http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: </pipermail/koha-devel/attachments/20091111/92786e7c/attachment-0002.htm>