Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-04 Thread Jason Stephenson
Quoting Martha Driscoll drisc...@noblenet.org: It sounds like statistical categories are a much broader concept, more like a custom field with no assumptions about what kind of data users may choose to store. In that case, I can see the reluctance to store that information in the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Kathy Lussier
-Original Message- From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Rayner, June Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 2:51 PM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Rayner, June
Group' Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation? Hi June, I haven't tried it myself, but one of my colleagues was just recently testing this. He ran a delete query for completed transactions in the action.circulation table, and a database trigger moved the transactions to aged circulation. I

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Jason Etheridge
One of the things we're considering is that the patronless aged circulation is a great concept, but once the transaction is moved to aged circulation, we lose the patron statistical categories, some of which we need for long term reporting.    We need to make sure this is handled in the

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Anna H. Reeves
Apologies to everyone for the errant email.

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Martha Driscoll
If the aged_circulation table preserved the user statistical category and the copy statistical category then you would be less likely to keep the transactions over time and would therefore increase patron privacy. In our current system we use patron stat_cats for things like college major,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Jason Etheridge
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Martha Driscoll drisc...@noblenet.org wrote: If the aged_circulation table preserved the user statistical category and the copy statistical category then you would be less likely to keep the transactions over time and would therefore increase patron privacy. My

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Mike Rylander
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Martha Driscoll drisc...@noblenet.org wrote: If the aged_circulation table preserved the user statistical category and the copy statistical category then you would be less likely to keep the transactions over time and would therefore increase patron privacy. To

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Aged Circulation?

2010-12-03 Thread Martha Driscoll
It sounds like statistical categories are a much broader concept, more like a custom field with no assumptions about what kind of data users may choose to store. In that case, I can see the reluctance to store that information in the aged_circulation table. I think there may still be a role