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