All, It does work in check out!! It is just in searching the patron's that it doesn't. Surely, the staff will accept that. Surely. I hope.
I apologize for my panic. We'll just use the name when searching for patrons and continue with our current procedure when checking out items. Linda On 4/6/2011 1:46 PM, Linda Culberson wrote: > All, > I tested the various suggestions. On our version, 3.02.02.003, putting > an asterisk in front of the number made no difference in the result. A > search of my number pulled up 1540 results. Adding the first letter of > my last name cut it down to 552. Using the first two letters did cut it > down to 26. Using my number and my full first name was 28 (mainly > because it got those "Belinda" and "Malinda" and "Melinda" etc.) > > A coworker's results were worse. Her card number pulled up 6358 results, > adding the first letter of her last name cut it to 2837, and the first > two letters to 249. Using her number and her full last name (which is > admittedly a common name - almost as bad as "Linda") got it down to 17. > > So basically, for us, searching by cardnumber doesn't really seem to > work, and so our checkout procedure will have to be reworked. We had > been swiping the patron's card and then the item's barcode. This won't > work in Koha, apparently. > > Thanks to all who answered. > > Linda > > On 1:59 PM, Tim McMahon wrote: >> In the staff interface, you can add an asterisk * before the barcode to >> get the exact item. Something like *36431 instead of just 36431. >> >> On 04/06/2011 11:10 AM, Hal Bright wrote: >>> In addition, is there a way to force an exact search in the materials >>> catalog? >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz >>> [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Linda Culberson >>> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 5:18 PM >>> To: koha >>> Subject: [Koha] Koha: staff client searching by card number >>> >>> Everyone, >>> Another newbie question: Is there a way in the staff client to search by >>> the exact card number? It seems to be using wild cards before and >>> after. For example, a search for "643" pulls up 1643", "36431" and >>> everything else that contains "643" with 643 in the list. We want it >>> to pull up only the one 643. I'm assuming it isn't acceptable to >>> change member.pl? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >> > -- Linda Culberson lcul...@mdah.state.ms.us Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives & History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Facsimile: 601/576-6824 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
