Thanks Katrin. I suppose I could have tested this on the test site to see if it really did what I wanted. I found a work around, since there were only a handful of patrons I really needed to keep track of. Elaine Bradtke VWML English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send an e-mail first. I work off site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Company No. 297142 Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999
On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 12:30 PM Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer...@web.de> wrote: > Hi Elaine, > > I just tested in master and the batch patron/anonymization tool won't > delete patrons with checkouts. What I did: > > - Create 2 expired users of a new patron category > - Checked out an item to 1 > - Batch deleted the category expired since before today > => Only the patron with no checkouts was deleted. > > To make sure you could repeat the test in your Koha installation, you > might find it already works like you need it to. The same should be true > for patrons with fines. > > If you want to check other things too, you could also work with the > patron list option and create a list of all users you want to delete, > removing those with checkouts, holds, etc. > > Hope that helps, > > Katrin > > > On 02.04.19 01:56, Elaine Bradtke wrote: > > The reason I'm doing this is our membership numbering system has changed, > > and our card numbers are the membership numbers (the membership card is > the > > library card). > > I've come up with a workaround: > > > > 1. Put all patrons with outstanding loans in a list (I have a report > > that lists them) > > 2. Create a new patron category for these patrons (and change the > > individual card numbers to the new card numbers) > > 3. Go through and purge the patrons by category, leaving the staff, > > patrons with outstanding loans, institutions, (any non-member > patrons) > > 4. Upload new patrons, matching by card number, overwriting the old > ones > > (this, at least in the past meant that addresses, and expiry dates > were > > updated, but loans remained as they were). > > > > But wouldn't it be nice if there was an option in the Patron Batch Delete > > function that said something like "Do not delete patrons with items > checked > > out". > > Any librarian will tell you that just because a patron's card has expired > > doesn't mean they've returned everything they've borrowed. This only > works > > because we have a very small number of borrowers! > > > > Elaine Bradtke > > VWML > > English Folk Dance and Song Society | http://www.efdss.org > > Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY > > Tel +44 (0) 20 7485 2206 (This number is for the English Folk Dance > and > > Song Society in London, England. If you wish to phone me personally, send > > an e-mail first. I work off site) > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Registered Company No. 297142 > > Charity Registered in England and Wales No. 305999 > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:36 AM Elaine Bradtke <e...@efdss.org> wrote: > > > >> Is there an easy way to delete all patrons *EXCEPT* the people who have > >> items checked out? > >> If I download just the records of the patrons who have items out, will > it > >> contain their borrowing information? > >> > >> The number of patrons with items checked out is very small. In a pinch I > >> could reconstruct the information by hand, but trying to avoid that. > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
