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Dealing With Barcodes Longer Than 10 Characters In Length
TapeTrack has a Volume-ID limit of 10 characters in length. Any volumes with an ID longer than 10 characters must be modified to fit within this criteria.
There are several ways in which can be achieved, such as truncation, translation or hashing.
Truncation
Truncating a barcode, or volume-ID, involves trimming off the start or end down to 10 or fewer characters.
Truncating a barcode can be achieved by several different methods.
Truncation Via The Scan In Window
Barcodes can be truncated via the TapeTrack Scan window in TapeMaster, Lite and Checkpoint.
Information on truncating a barcode via the scan window can be found here.
Truncation Via Media Properties In TapeMaster
Truncation of a barcode by removing the suffix (eg removing L6 from 1234567890L6) can be achieved by setting the Remove Suffix option in the media properties via TapeMaster.
Truncating a barcode via the media properties tab. Adding L6 in the Remove Suffix field will remove L6 from any matching volume-ID (eg removing L6 from 1234567890L6) regardless of barcode length.
Adding L* will remove any 2 digit suffix from the volume-ID that starts with L (eg 123456L6 will truncate to 123456, 1000000001L3 will truncate to 1000000001)
Translation
Translating a barcode, or volume-ID, involves swapping a recognisable pattern for an alternate value within the 10 character limit via translation statements in a ttidef file.
Using a translation statement AddTranslation(VOLUME, “A6??????????”, “^^~~~~~~~~~~”); in the ttidef file, any 12 character volume-ID starting with A6, such as A61234567890, will drop the first two characters and keep the next 10, inputting as 1234567890.
Hashing
Hashing a barcode, or volume-ID, involves replacing the barcode with its 8 character hashed value, preceded by the value #- to allow identification that the volume-ID has been hashed. It is a good practice to put the true, or un-hashed, barcode in the attribute field to enable a human readable value as well as the hashed volume-ID.
Hashing a barcode that has a space in the middle, such as Monday 1, is the simplest method (spaces are not permitted in volume-ID's) for translation to an acceptable value.