[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Barcode Completion Docs - Barcode formats

[Josh Stompro]

Thanks again, I fixed that issue and pushed another commit to my working branch for this issue.
user/stompro/lp1387639_barcode_completion_docs

And thanks for creating this feature in the first place.

Josh Stompro - LARL IT Director


-----Original Message-----
From: OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION [mailto:open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Berezansky
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 1:21 PM
To: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Barcode Completion Docs - Barcode formats

Looks like your "With Suffix" documentation needs "Padding at End - Checked" included. As you have it documented I believe the actual final barcode would be 000123book instead of the 123000book you show.

Otherwise I don't think there is anything else to point out right now.  
Or at least nothing is jumping out at me.

Quoting Josh Stompro <stomproj at exchange.larl.org>:

> Thomas, Thank you for the feedback.  I've updated the documentation to 
> include a beginning paragraph that addresses the scenario you 
> mentioned, and an example for matching a barcode of any length with a 
> prefix and suffix.  Please let me know if you think I covered it 
> sufficiently.
>
> https://gist.github.com/stompro/728e92ab9dae47a15a88
>
> Josh Stompro - LARL IT Director
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION
> [mailto:open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On 
> Behalf Of Thomas Berezansky
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 10:15 AM
> To: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Barcode Completion Docs - 
> Barcode formats
>
> No padding character or zero length means "attach prefix/suffix to 
> input and look that up".
>
> That may be useful for things like adding a single character to the 
> front of scanned barcodes, regardless of length, such as when 
> migrated/imported data may contain a leading or trailing character.
> Or both.
>
>
> Possible examples with length set to 0 and/or padding not set:
>
> Prefix of "a" and suffix of "b" when a barcode scanner was previously 
> outputting those characters around the barcode.
>
> Prefix of "d" because migrated data includes that character but new 
> scans will only include the digits.
>
>
> Note that "Want to fill out to 14 digits" and "want to check if it 
> exists with a d in front" at the same time could require three rules.
> One for "add the d regardless of what was entered", one for "fill out 
> to 14 digits without a d", and one for both (length 15, prefix has the 
> d in front of whatever the normal prefix is from filling out to 14 
> digits).
>
>
> Quoting Josh Stompro <stomproj at exchange.larl.org>:
>
>> Hello, the Doc Hackfest on Wed inspired me to try and get the barcode 
>> completion docs done.  I have limited experience with various formats 
>> of barcodes though, we have a standard for the state of MN, 14 
>> digits,
>> 5 character prefix, zeros for padding, significant digits to the 
>> right.
>>
>> Here is a link to the gist -
>> https://gist.github.com/stompro/728e92ab9dae47a15a88
>>
>> I include examples for 4 types of barcodes,
>>
>> *         Prefix + padding
>>
>> *         Suffix + Padding
>>
>> *         Left padding
>>
>> *         Right padding
>>
>> Are there any other examples I should include?
>> Thanks
>> Josh
>
>
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