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@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
