[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Library Settings-Patron barcode format

[Tim Spindler]

Thanks Tom, I think like the permissions than this is an area where some
documentation might make things clearer on what purpose that setting is.
 With that the current documentation says this about the setting

"Defines acceptable format for patron barcodes"


I would suggest we change it to read

"Defines acceptable format for patron barcodes for usage by the OPAC to
determine if a login attempt is via a username or a barcode."


Tim

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Thomas Berezansky <tsbere at mvlc.org> wrote:

> For the most part that setting is applied to the OPAC to determine if a
> login attempt is via a username or a barcode.
>
> Anything that matches that format is a barcode. Anything that doesn't is a
> username.
>
> I know of nothing in evergreen that currently tries to validate patron
> barcodes at all at registration, or that tries to validate item barcodes
> beyond "strict" mode in some interfaces that does checksum calcs.
>
> Thomas Berezansky
> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
>
>
>
> Quoting Tim Spindler <tspindler at cwmars.org>:
>
>  I have set up a regex for this "[Dd2]{1}[0-9]{9,13}"  which is designed to
>> allow for 10-14 digit barcodes that can begin with d (small or upper case)
>> or a 2.   I entered this in the library setting at the top level (c/w
>> mars)
>> and it seems to do nothing.   I thought it would validate the data entered
>> to see if it matches the regex.
>>
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