[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron Family Groups and Cloning

[Martha Driscoll]

We have been using the save and clone feature when adding users to 
Evergreen as an easy way to copy similar information from one record to 
another.  These are most often family members, but could also be 
students sharing an apartment.

We have the setting 'Patron Registration: Cloned patrons get address 
copy' set to true because 1) we think it is just cleaner for each user 
to have their own address record and 2) we don't want to create linked 
relationships even for family members.

We have discovered recently, thanks to using the horizontal display 
where it is prominent, that cloning creates a group relationship.  I 
guess my question is what is the background of the cloning/grouping 
feature and why is cloning which is a great way to save typing so 
closely related to grouping?

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Martha Driscoll
Systems Manager
North of Boston Library Exchange
Danvers, Massachusetts
www.noblenet.org