[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Merging Patrons

[Mike Rylander]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com> wrote:
>> Sounds like a good possibility.  I just wonder how (or if) you could tease apart transactions that happened after the merger, particularly if there is more than one active card attached to the record, and the transactions happened after retrieving the user by name or other access point so you don't know for sure which card to attach the new transactions to.
>
> Hrmm, I'd say throw transactions on the card that was used to retrieve
> the patron.  However, if the patron was retrieved by a different
> means, it'd be a bit klunky/inelegant to ask staff which card is being
> used for that session.  We could do that or just default to a
> random/arbitrary active card.  Still a better situation than trying to
> separate post-merge transactions into two different accounts without
> cards being involved.  Or maybe we could put the circs-in-question in
> some sort of limbo (a neutral account grouped to both patrons?) until
> one the patrons confirm who they belong to.

Sounds like another use for actor.usr.card. ;)

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