The hbyymmincr autoBarcode builder looks up all barcodes that begin with
any number of letters ( the branchcode ) and a two-digit year directly
afterward ( e.g. MPL15 ), then grabs the last four digits as the
increment counter. The problem is, this does not take months into
account, so unlike the description that says the system is limited to
10,000 items a month, it is limited to 10,000 items per *year*.
This situation can easily be corrected my adding the month into the
lookup ( e.g. MPL1501 ).
Test Plan:
1) Enable autoBarcode, set to hbyymmincr
2) Catalog an item, let the barcode.pl plugin generate
the next barcode.
3) Catalog an item with the barcode MPL15009999
4) Catalog another item, use the barcode.pl plugin to
generate the next barcode.
5) Note the barcode is generated ends with '0001' instead of the
correct increment
6) Apply this patch
7) Repeat step 4
8) Note the barcode now ends with the correct increment
Signed-off-by: Kyle M Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeanne Heicher <nppublib@pa.net>
Signed-off-by: Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83@web.de>
Problem confirmed - the continuing number bit was not reset
to start counting from 1 again on the beginning of a new month.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com>
In addition to adding a new barcode plugin, this commit begins
refactoring the barcode generation code using a new module,
C4::Barcodes::ValueBuilder. From the POD:
This module is intended as a shim to ease the eventual transition
from having all barcode-related code in the value builder plugin
barcode.pl file to using C4::Barcodes. Since the shift will require
a rather significant amount of refactoring, this module will return
value builder-formatted results, at first by merely running the
code that was formerly in the barcodes.pl value builder, but later
by using C4::Barcodes.
Signed-off-by: Kyle M Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
