On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:54:33PM -0400, Demian Katz wrote: > Hello, > > I've started looking at the patron migration instructions in the 2.0 > documentation: > > http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/2.0/draft/html/migratingpatrons.html > > I have a couple of questions: >
<snip> > - Is there any detailed documentation on the meanings of some of these > fields? I see the links to the database schemas, but higher-level > information on things like profile, ident_type and home_ou would be helpful > to determine the correct mappings. Any guidance would be appreciated! profile = the user's primary role with respect to the Library. Most sites use this to determine both borrowing privileges and Evergreen system permissions. The numeric value points to the permission.perm_grp.id column. (Aside: our site uses this strictly to determine borrowing privileges; we use permission.usr_grp_map to assign users to zero or more groups to determine their system permissions). ident_type = the type of identification the user showed to assert their identity (Driver's License, SSN (ugh), Other are the defaults). The numeric value points to the config.identification_type.id column. (Aside: this is a meaningless column for our site, but unfortunately this column is NOT NULL so we end up using "Other") home_ou = the home library for the user; which library "owns" the user. The numeric value points to the actor.org_unit.id column. Hopefully this helps a bit.
