Martha, This feature was created for the PINES consortium as a way to ease the registration of families. With that use case in mind, it makes sense that grouping would accompany cloning. Does that help?
Chris ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martha Driscoll" <[email protected]> > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:32:16 AM > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron Family Groups and Cloning > > We have been using the save and clone feature when adding users to > Evergreen as an easy way to copy similar information from one record > to > another. These are most often family members, but could also be > students sharing an apartment. > > We have the setting 'Patron Registration: Cloned patrons get address > copy' set to true because 1) we think it is just cleaner for each > user > to have their own address record and 2) we don't want to create > linked > relationships even for family members. > > We have discovered recently, thanks to using the horizontal display > where it is prominent, that cloning creates a group relationship. I > guess my question is what is the background of the cloning/grouping > feature and why is cloning which is a great way to save typing so > closely related to grouping? > > -- > Martha Driscoll > Systems Manager > North of Boston Library Exchange > Danvers, Massachusetts > www.noblenet.org > -- Chris Sharp PINES System Administrator Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 [email protected] http://pines.georgialibraries.org/
