Maureen,
I don't think you are required to have patron and item barcodes starting
with different numbers, it just helps to prevent mix up of number
sequences when purchasing membership cards and item barcodes. Innovative
does have some settings for barcode validation, but this is for the
check digit at the end and it is only for some specific schema. As Mieko
says there is only one barcode index, so there are no settings saying it
is an item based upon the number of digits in the barcode.
What you are getting is correct behaviour, if you scan a 6 digit barcode
and it has the same first 6 characters as an 8 digit one I would expect
Millennium to throw up both records so that you can choose which is
which. We had a couple of similar problems, when membership numbers were
duplicated and when item numbers were duplicated. The best solution we
could find was to get rid of the duplicates
Alan
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From: Maureen Richardson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 22 August 2011 11:07
Subject: Barcode question
This is a longshot but thought I would ask. Our patron barcodes are 8
digits and some begin with 2...
Our item barcodes are 6 digits. We needed to order more and
inadvertently ordered 99,000 item barcodes beginning with a 2. Now we
have a clash of course when a book is returned with a 2 barcode which
matches 1st 6 letters of a patron record. I think when we implemented
Millennium we were told that patron and item barcodes could not start
with the same number. Is that right? Are there any settings which would
mean it would "know" by number of digits which was items and which was
patron?
Luckily we have only used 60 item barcodes so far but they were
expensive...
Many thanks
Maureen
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