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Abhisheknetback
Level 6
11 years ago

Media Barcode rule creation

Dear Friends ,

I was using below mentioned bar code .

0001L5 000001L5 HCART2
0010L5 000010L5 HCART2
0011L5 000011L5 HCART2
0012L5 000012L5 HCART2

Now i have new bar code as per below  only intialy two digit is diffrent then old barcode , now when i tried to perform inventry the error occred

Inventry Failed media id not unique in database (34)

0012L5 (barcode DR0012L5)
0011L5 (barcode DR0011L5)
0010L5 (barcode DR0010L5)
0001L5 (barcode DR0001L5)

 

Please Help .

Thanks You

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  • mph999's avatar
    mph999
    11 years ago
    You need to consider this when designing a system. As you see, the default media id is last 6 characters, so for two barcodes that are different, you end up with the same media id - which fails, because it is always in use. Better would be to have used the 1st 6 characters as the media id, that was they stay unique.

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    mph999
    Level 6
    11 years ago
    You need to consider this when designing a system. As you see, the default media id is last 6 characters, so for two barcodes that are different, you end up with the same media id - which fails, because it is always in use. Better would be to have used the 1st 6 characters as the media id, that was they stay unique.
  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    Problem is that you already have tapes that have been written to with ####L5 media id's in the system.

    As long as they are Assigned, you cannot change the media id in NBU.
    When all images have expired, you will have to delete media id ending in L5, run Inventory to add them with 1st 6 characters, and then 'label' them to overwrite the internal label with the same 1st 6 characters.

    As per Martin's excellent post - best to add this rule before any tapes are written to.