Additionally, for me:
We have a Music Library of around 3,000 titles, which are not
catalogued. It would be efficient for us to pre-print sequential
barcodes to affix to each item before cataloguing, and then as it
is catalogued, scan that item into Emilda, so there is no accidental
problem with sticking a "post-catalogued" barcode to the wrong item.
Also, these items may not be catalogued in barcode-sequential order.
We have a laser printer that doesn't print 1 barcode at a time (we use
sheets of labels, 30 per sheet). Again, to avoid mistakes, it is best
to either have the barcode pre-affixed while entering the data or at
least printed and affixed immediately after entering the data.
Unfortunately for our printer, it would possibly waste 29 labels,
depending on the circumstance.
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:40:18PM +0200, Wolfgang Pichler wrote:
> Christoffer Landtman wrote:
>
> >Jerry Leahy wrote:
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >>
> >>Some questions:
> >>
> >> 1. Can we customize the book ID so that it starts from a certain
> >> value? Say 200001 for books? If not, could we add a barcode
> >> field to a book ID?
> >
> >
> >In the database, there is a table called "control" which contains
> >Emilda internal values. For the time being it only contains the
> >control number of the last added item. There is currently no tool
> >present to customize the Item ID of a book, but there certainly exists
> >a demand for this. I will file this as an enhancement and see if we
> >still can get this into 1.2.
> >
> >Could You describe a bit more why the id has to start from e.g. 200000
> >so that I may use this as a bait to implement the issue =)
> >
> hi christoffer.
>
> there is of course some rationale behind such issues :-)
>
> it is a good idea" to have the possibility to have _book_&_user_id's_
>
> - NOT starting at 1 AND/OR not being consecutive
> - not having the default "length" AND/OR having a check digit (e.g. to
> employ ean-12 id's)
>
> this sort of enhancement was the main reason for the patches i supplied
> some time ago.
> i will try to address/verify these topics in august too
>
> greetings
> wolfgang
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