Michelle, The address does copy when we clone records. My question actually had to do more with whether or not all addresses changed for members of a group when one address was edited. Jason seems to indicate this is possible, but I can't see how to make that happen.
Janet Royer SysAdmin/Circ Supervisor Burlington Public Library 820 E Washington Ave Burlington WA 98233 360-755-0760 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michele Morgan Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 9:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Notification/Action Triggers and Family (Group) Accounts 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. > -- Michele Morgan, Technical Assistant North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts [email protected]
