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Cloud App version of SpineOMatic
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Can duplicate barcode input and print be supported? #71

Open dongchch2016 opened 2 years ago

dongchch2016 commented 2 years ago

It is not supported now, because 'set' is used to store barcodes, but is it possible to add checkbox option to allow repeated barcodes input, so that repeated barcodes can be recorded and printed.

Thanks, chenchen

dongchch2016 commented 2 years ago

Hi,Mgobat,

Will this requirement be developed? If so, will there be a specific timeline? Because this is what the customer needs urgently.

Thanks, chenchen

mgobat commented 2 years ago

@dongchch2016, we haven't evaluated the feasibility of this enhancement yet. Therefore, there is no timeline for implementation. Sorry.

dongchch2016 commented 2 years ago

@mgobat No worries, thank you for your reply. So in other words, is the requirement acceptable for development?

Thanks, chenchen

dongchch2016 commented 2 years ago

@mgobat No worries, thank you for your reply. So in other words, is the requirement acceptable for development?

Thanks, chenchen

mgobat commented 2 years ago

@dongchch2016, the original developer has left the company. I need to familiarize myself with the application (and the Alma APIs used in it) before I can determine if it can be done.

dongchch2016 commented 2 years ago

@mgobat OK. No problem.

Thank you! chenchen

dongchch2016 commented 2 years ago

Hi,Mgobat,

How is this going?

Thanks, chenchen

mgobat commented 2 years ago

@dongchch2016, what is the workflow/purpose for this? Item barcodes are unique, so why would you want a barcode in the set multiple times? Thanks.

cindywanghui01 commented 2 years ago

@mgobat Customer need to print out the same barcodes multiple times because they need to attach both the item itself and the item slipcases. Hope this helps.

Thanks, Cindy

mgobat commented 2 years ago

@cindywanghui01, would an option to print multiple copies of the same set of labels solve the problem instead of multiple occurrences of the same barcode in the set?

cindywanghui01 commented 2 years ago

@mgobat, it would be better to have an option to have duplicate barcode because this kind of book will mix with the normal books together, and most of Chinese customer has a lot of physical books to deal with everyday, it'll be more efficient if they can just scan the item without doing anything else. Otherwise, they'll need to pick up those books with slipcases seperately and created a set, it won't be efficient and will cause more work.

BR, Cindy

mgobat commented 2 years ago

@cindywanghui01, thank you for the explanation. We certainly don't want to make their workflow more complicated. Will investigate what we can do. No commitment yet.

cindywanghui01 commented 2 years ago

@cindywanghui01, thank you for the explanation. We certainly don't want to make their workflow more complicated. Will investigate what we can do. No commitment yet.

Thank you very much for all your effort!

BR, Cindy

cindywanghui01 commented 2 years ago

@mgobat hi, is there any luck?

BR, Cindy

mgobat commented 2 years ago

@cindywanghui01, I don't think it is an easy/quick change. I have to find something else to use besides Sets.

cindywanghui01 commented 2 years ago

Hi mgobat,

I am helping customer to check if there is any further update, thanks!

BR, Cindy

mgobat commented 2 years ago

@cindywanghui01, no update yet. Sorry.

BarbaraSalfate commented 1 year ago

Hi, Here in Universidad Católica de Chile need this enhancement too because in the PC spineomatic has the option to scan the same barcode several times. We will be watching for updates. Thanks in advance. Bárbara

mgobat commented 1 year ago

If printing multiple copies of the same label set helps, this can be done if you use Microsoft Edge as your browser. When the 'Print" dialog appears after clicking "Print X Labels" in the Cloud App, you can change the number of copies. This will give you the same labels printed for however many times you set the "Copies". Unfortunately, this does not work in Firefox or Chrome.

We still don't have a timeline for scanning the same barcode more than once.

kronneCSU commented 1 year ago

In trying to configure this for batch printing, sets seem to make the most sense since both scanning and selecting only let you do one item (or can't select items from multiple records). However, the set doesn't recognize duplicate barcodes when you need to print two of the same label. Any suggestions for how to accomplish this. For the select method it would be nice to be able to select, save and add from another record so you can build up a batch from multiple titles.

For some context, when we process serial items (magazines) we usually process 16 items from different titles at once (this is due to the label sheets we use). The way serial items arrive, we couldn't wait to process 16 of the same title as that would create a huge back up for us and items wouldn't go out to the shelf in a timely manner. When a title has a supplement, we don't generally make a separate item for the supplement and create two labels from the same barcode.

Let me know if there is any other information I can provide.