[Evergreen-catalogers] auto-generate barcodes

Thu Jun 13 16:46:14 EDT 2019

Hi Beth,
I just tried this again as I was unsure how you were tabbing to the next item, since I was scanning barcodes tab wasn’t an option. As soon as I scan in the first barcode, the next 5 automatically filled in the next item lines. I just tried typing in the barcode and tabbing, and it does NOT autogenerate. I typed it in again and hit enter instead of tab, and it did autogenerate. Hope this helps.

Thanks and have a great day!
Chrisy

Chrisy Schroth
Assistant Cataloger/Serials Coordinator
Kenton County Public Library
3095 Hulbert Avenue
Erlanger, KY 41018
859-578-7924 work
chrisy.schroth at kentonlibrary.org

From: Evergreen-catalogers <evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org> On Behalf Of Willis, Beth
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 4:32 PM
To: Evergreen Community Catalogers <evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org>
Subject: Re: [Evergreen-catalogers] auto-generate barcodes

Hi Janet,

We have installed the patch that makes the holdings defaults sticky.  But, even with those two settings selected, I don't see that the auto-generate feature is working.

Here's what I am doing:

Add holdings
Increment the number of items I want to add
Input the first barcode
Tab to the following item

I have also tried adding the first barcode and then incrementing the number of items that I want to add.

I never see barcodes displaying for the additional barcodes.

I think I am still missing something here.

Beth

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 3:45 PM Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org<mailto:jschrader at cwmars.org>> wrote:
Hi Beth,

Are your checkboxes for autogenerate barcodes and use check digit checked? There's a bug that these checkboxes for defaults checked are not sticky, LP #1812900<https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1812900>. Staff at CWMARS just signed off on the fix today. If the boxes aren't checked, nothing happens. We have the patch on the training server and the feature works fine when adding multiple copies to the same call number. I didn't test adding to different call numbers, will have to try that.

Janet

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 3:31 PM Chrisy Schroth <Chrisy.Schroth at kentonlibrary.org<mailto:Chrisy.Schroth at kentonlibrary.org>> wrote:
Hi Beth,
I haven’t actually used this feature since we migrated to Evergreen so I had forgotten all about it. Your email reminded me, and since I was curious, I logged into our test database to see if it worked. After I went into the Defaults tab and selected those boxes, I did get it to work as I expected it to do.

I went to holdings > add call numbers and items > changed my number of items to 6 > it created 5 additional lines for barcodes, etc. > scanned the first barcode into the first box, and it generated the next 5 on the roll correctly.

I did then check to see if it made a difference if you were creating more items on an existing call number. Initially it did not work, until I checked the defaults tab, and saw that the boxes were not checked on this view. Once I checked them again and then tried creating 6 items again, it filled in the next 5 barcodes after the one scanned.

If I put in the first barcode into the first box, THEN changed it to 6 items instead of only the one, it did not autogenerate the rest of the barcodes.

I also tried to create 4 items on 4 different call numbers/owning libraries, and it did not autogenerate barcodes. If I remember correctly, this is consistent with how it worked in our previous ILS as well, that they all had to be the same call number or location or whatever. I think I only ever used it to create the volumes 2-?? on a set of encyclopedias or something like that. I hope this helps.

Thanks and have a great day!
Chrisy

Chrisy Schroth
Assistant Cataloger/Serials Coordinator
Kenton County Public Library
3095 Hulbert Avenue
Erlanger, KY 41018
859-578-7924 work
chrisy.schroth at kentonlibrary.org<mailto:chrisy.schroth at kentonlibrary.org>

From: Evergreen-catalogers <evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org<mailto:evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org>> On Behalf Of Willis, Beth
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 2:52 PM
To: Evergreen Community Catalogers <evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org<mailto:evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org>>
Subject: [Evergreen-catalogers] auto-generate barcodes

Hi everyone,

The "Defaults" tab in the holdings editor has settings for "Auto-generate Barcodes" and "Use check digit."  I have selected both settings, but I have not had any luck in auto-generating barcodes when adding multiple items to a bib record.

I believe this worked fine in the xul client, though I didn't have much occasion to use this option.

Does anyone know if this is working in the web client?  What am I missing?

Thanks!
Beth

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