On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Jason Etheridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Sounds like a good possibility.  I just wonder how (or if) you could tease 
>> apart transactions that happened after the merger, particularly if there is 
>> more than one active card attached to the record, and the transactions 
>> happened after retrieving the user by name or other access point so you 
>> don't know for sure which card to attach the new transactions to.
>
> Hrmm, I'd say throw transactions on the card that was used to retrieve
> the patron.  However, if the patron was retrieved by a different
> means, it'd be a bit klunky/inelegant to ask staff which card is being
> used for that session.  We could do that or just default to a
> random/arbitrary active card.  Still a better situation than trying to
> separate post-merge transactions into two different accounts without
> cards being involved.  Or maybe we could put the circs-in-question in
> some sort of limbo (a neutral account grouped to both patrons?) until
> one the patrons confirm who they belong to.

Sounds like another use for actor.usr.card. ;)

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