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

[Thomas Berezansky]

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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