Janet,
There is a library setting "Patron Registration: Cloned patrons get address
copy" which will cause cloned records to get a unique address record that is a
copy of the original patron's. Perhaps this is set to TRUE for your library?
Hope this helps,
Michele
On 12/13/2013 12:04 PM, Jason Etheridge wrote:
Jason, we have not found this to be true but would certainly like for it to
happen. Is there some setting we need to change to make this happen? We
do find that at registration Save & Clone, the fields are populated.
However, if changes are made to an account later those changes only reflect
on the account changed and are not propagated to the other linked
accounts.
To be clear, this is just with addresses. An address thus linked will show
up "read-only" on a linked patron and will have a blurb saying "This address
is owned by another user:" followed by a hyperlinked user name, allowing you
to bring up that account. If you don't see that blurb, then the address may
be linked to other people, but is not itself a linked address coming from
someone else.
An address linked like that only exists in one specific place in the
database, so if you change it through the owning account, any linked users
will effectively get those changes. However, if you have a view of such a
linked user already loaded, you'll need to refresh that tab.
Does this help? To complicate things, a potential gotcha is that the linking
of addresses is actually orthogonal to the grouping of patrons. So you can,
for example, remove a patron from a family group and still have them using a
linked address. You can delete a linked address from a patron and it won't
hurt any other users sharing or owning that address.
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Michele Morgan, Technical Assistant
North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts
[email protected]
