I hope this question isn’t too obvious, but I can’t seem to find it: how does one “turn on the deleted flag on the account?”
Thank you, Scott From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Rogan Hamby Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 4:44 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Deleting Patron Accounts 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<mailto: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<mailto: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>