[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts

[Scott Thomas]

I hope this question isn’t too obvious, but I can’t seem to find it:  how does one “turn on the deleted flag on the account?”

Thank you,
Scott

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Rogan Hamby
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 4:44 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts

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<mailto: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.

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