[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Patron Family Groups and Cloning

[Martha Driscoll]

Thanks for the reply Chris.  It's good to know the background of this 
function. I wish the save and clone button were named something 
different to make the grouping more obvious, but I can't think of 
anything short enough for a button.  Maybe there needs to be a checkbox 
that toggles the clone function between grouping and not grouping the 
copied record.  Just thinking out loud here.

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

On 9/11/2013 11:15 AM, Sharp, Chris wrote:
> 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
>>
>