Monday Minutes: Duplicate Patrons

by Jessie Zairo on Nov 18, 2024

In this week's Monday Minutes, Nick and Jessie discuss duplicate patrons and the system preference that controls what fields it looks at, PatronDuplicateMatchingAddFields. This preference lists the patron fields used for identifying deduplications. The default value is the surname, first name and dateofbirth.

System Preference

1. Navigate to Administration --> System Preferences PatronDuplicateMatchingAddFields
2. This system preference allows you to choose which fields will be used to detect duplicate patrons.
3. This preference states: The following database columns: ___ will be used to detect possible duplicates when adding a new patron.
   1. The columns can be viewed in the schema for the borrowers' table.
4. The Default columns selected for the preference are surname|firstname|dateofbirth.
   

Duplicate Warning

Staff will see the following warning when creating a patron with a duplicate found in the system.

If you were watching.......

We said we would file a bug to add City and Towns to the Quick Add Patron Record form!

Bug 38459 - Cities dropdown should work for quick add form as well

Additional Resources

Coming in the 24.11 release!

Bug 37562 - Duplicate patron check when user cannot see patron leads to a blank popup