Hello Katrin, Thank you for your reply. Upon my research I was/am also leaning towards a solution like that: assigning the copy number with the homebranch prefix. It'll still be needed to reprint labels for the delta items, but at least Koha will allow for checkin/checkout.
Thanks, Pedro Amorim 2017-06-26 19:09 GMT+00:00 Katrin <[email protected]>: > Hi Pedro, > > you are right, at the moment a barcode in the item is still needed for > checkouts to work. We have used another value as a replacement for the > barcode in the past, duplicating the (unique) callnumber into the barcode > field or assigning a number with a special prefix or something like that. > > Hope that helps, > > Katrin > > > On 23.06.2017 13:11, Pedro Amorim wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I imported records with *dedupbarcode* option and some of them were >> imported with no barcode, because there were already some items with the >> same barcode, as expected. >> >> Now, I want to be able to check out some of the items that have no barcode >> information, and tried the syspref *itemBarcodeFallbackSearch*. This is >> nice because in the check out interface I can now input other information >> (callnumber, copy number, record title) and still retrieve the item. >> However, it seems that this search only provides the items that actually >> have barcode information associated with it. >> >> In the code: >> https://github.com/Koha-Community/Koha/blob/master/circ/ >> circulation.pl#L359 >> >> It seems that the item is only added to the list of options if there is, >> in >> fact, bar code information. >> After a couple of tests, it never returns the items with no barcode, only >> the ones that have it. Has anyone tried this? Is this the expected >> behaviour? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Pedro Amorim >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >> [email protected] >> https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
