There are other issues that can come up with reporting and aged circulations but those are more workflow issues than technical ones.
All of this being a very long way of saying there are pros and cons with every choice. :) On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Jason Etheridge <ja...@esilibrary.com> wrote: > > Thank you for replying. One thing you mentioned has piqued my > interest. > > It might be easier if I gave a scenario instead of trying to describe > what I > > mean. Say, on January 2, 2016, I run a report on circulation for 2015 and > > then, a month later, delete many patrons some of whom had checked out > > materials in 2015. If I ran the same 2015 report again after the > deletions, > > would the numbers be different because the patrons were purged? In other > > words, when a patron is deleted, do their countable circ transactions go > > with them? > > There is a trigger on the circulation table that will convert > circulations being deleted into "aged" (essentially anonymous) > circulations. Depending on how you write your report, you can get > some statistics that way. > > -- > Jason Etheridge > | Community and Migration Manager > | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts > | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) > | email: ja...@esilibrary.com > | web: http://www.esilibrary.com > -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis>