[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts

[Rogan Hamby]

There are other issues that can come up with reporting and aged
circulations but those are more workflow issues than technical ones.

All of this being a very long way of saying there are pros and cons with
every choice.  :)

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com>
wrote:

> >    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.
>
> --
> Jason Etheridge
> | Community and Migration Manager
> | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
> | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
> | email: jason at esilibrary.com
> | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
>



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Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services,
York County Library System

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me.”
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