[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Merging Patrons

[Jason Etheridge]

>>> 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.
>>
>> [splitting users by splitting cards, and which card to put new transactions on]
>> 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.
>
> Sounds like another use for actor.usr.card. ;)

Well, the whole point of unmerging patrons is to fix a mistake, and if
you've mistakenly merged two patrons, then what are the odds of
post-merge-pre-unmerge transactions going onto the right card whenever
the actual physical card is not present?  Selecting one with
actor.usr.card doesn't seem to improve the odds by itself.

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