[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron checkout history

[Bill Erickson]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 02:19:26PM -0400, Grace Dunbar wrote:
> Bill,
> For clarification, when a patron opts-in to the checkout history does it:
> a.) go back in time and show them everything from the past X years?
> b.) start logging history at the time they opt-in?

Option b.  It starts collecting history the moment the patron opts in.  

You didn't ask why, but here goes.. ;)

A technical justification for this is that, even though some or all of a
patron's history may exist in the regular/active circulation table, much 
of it may only exist in the anonymized historical circulation table.  
Opting in back to the beginning of time could create confusing 
inconsistencies ("why does it only remember the last 5 circs?"),  not to 
mention questions from patrons about why the history was there in the 
first place if the user was not already opt'ed in.

-b


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