[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts

[Jason Etheridge]

>    Thank you for replying.  One thing you mentioned has piqued my interest.
> It might be easier if I gave a scenario instead of trying to describe what I
> mean. Say, on January 2, 2016, I run a report on circulation for 2015 and
> then, a month later, delete many patrons some of whom had checked out
> materials in 2015. If I ran the same 2015 report again after the deletions,
> would the numbers be different because the patrons were purged? In other
> words, when a patron is deleted, do their countable circ transactions go
> with them?

There is a trigger on the circulation table that will convert
circulations being deleted into "aged" (essentially anonymous)
circulations.  Depending on how you write your report, you can get
some statistics that way.

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Jason Etheridge
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