[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Migrating patron data

[Demian Katz]

Thanks, this is very helpful.  Hopefully we can find a place in the documentation for storing information along these lines....

- Demian

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> ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:14 AM
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> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Migrating patron data
> 
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:54:33PM -0400, Demian Katz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've started looking at the patron migration instructions in the 2.0
> documentation:
> >
> > http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.0/draft/html/migratingpatrons.html
> >
> > I have a couple of questions:
> >
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > - Is there any detailed documentation on the meanings of some of
> these fields?  I see the links to the database schemas, but higher-
> level information on things like profile, ident_type and home_ou would
> be helpful to determine the correct mappings.  Any guidance would be
> appreciated!
> 
> profile = the user's primary role with respect to the Library. Most
> sites use this to determine both borrowing privileges and Evergreen
> system permissions. The numeric value points to the
> permission.perm_grp.id column. (Aside: our site uses this strictly to
> determine borrowing privileges; we use permission.usr_grp_map to assign
> users to zero or more groups to determine their system permissions).
> 
> ident_type = the type of identification the user showed to assert their
> identity (Driver's License, SSN (ugh), Other are the defaults). The
> numeric value points to the config.identification_type.id column.
> (Aside: this is a meaningless column for our site, but unfortunately
> this
> column is NOT NULL so we end up using "Other")
> 
> home_ou = the home library for the user; which library "owns" the user.
> The numeric value points to the actor.org_unit.id column.
> 
> Hopefully this helps a bit.