Increase Max Size of Item Code 1 Field
The Item Code 1 field was going to solve all my statistical issues. I thought it had 5 characters and each character could be 0-9 which meant I could assign a meaning to each character. For example, the first character indicates agency (1 for CPL, 2 for ADL, 3 for BKM) and the second character indicates audience (1 for adult, 2 for young adult, 3 for juvenile, 4 for other) and the third character, format, etc. HOWEVER it turns out that the largest number this field can hold is 32767 which is weirdly random and very limiting when you want to have a code that can be built with meaning.
Anyway, I'd like to suggest that the Item Code 1 maximum number be increased from 32767 to 99999 so it is more flexible for libraries to create meaningful statistical categories with it.
I hope I'm not alone! Please vote for this idea.
Best regards,
Katie DuClos
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The product team will review this idea for consideration for a future release.
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Lloyd Chittenden
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If they did add another digit, then you could get to 19 codes at 262144. Adding together all 19 codes would get you to 524288, and you would need still another digit to go farther. Maybe moving from 15 codes to 19 isn't enough of an improvement to be worth the difficulty of adding another digit.
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Lloyd Chittenden
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I realize further that the point of a system of codes doubling the number before is that you can add them together to make combined codes. They cut off at 32767 because that allows you to add up all of them together. If you added 32768, then adding together all the codes would get you to 131071, which would require another digit, which could be hard depending on what's going on in the background.
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Lloyd Chittenden
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I see that's not a random number. If you want to use a system where each code is two times the previous code (which can be very useful, and I can't really see any other reason to need even the number they already provide), then this limit only allows you 15 codes. The 16th one would be 32768. It seems strange to cut it off there, at one number before you could have a 16th code. Even if they did increase to 99999, then you would only get a 17th at 65536.