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

[Sharp, Chris]

Martha, 

This feature was created for the PINES consortium as a way to ease the registration of families.  With that use case in mind, it makes sense that grouping would accompany cloning.  Does that help?

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martha Driscoll" <driscoll at noblenet.org>
> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:32:16 AM
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron Family Groups and Cloning
> 
> 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?
> 
> --
> Martha Driscoll
> Systems Manager
> North of Boston Library Exchange
> Danvers, Massachusetts
> www.noblenet.org
> 

-- 
Chris Sharp
PINES System Administrator
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, Georgia 30345
(404) 235-7147
csharp at georgialibraries.org
http://pines.georgialibraries.org/