{"id":1604,"date":"2019-06-28T10:38:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2019-06-28T10:38:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:38:18","slug":"polaris-tip-merging-duplicate-patron-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/2019\/06\/28\/polaris-tip-merging-duplicate-patron-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaris Tip: Merging duplicate patron records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you discover that a patron has multiple patron records, you can merge them into one. This is handy if a patron has moved to a new community.<br><br>1. Open the patron record you wish to keep: this should be the record with the correct address and contact information.<br>2. Click the registration button located at the top of the patron record. <br>3. Then select the merge button on the right side of the registration form.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"161\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/post-pic-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1608\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>4. You will see a pop up with all the primary record information on the left side and the secondary record (to be deleted will be blank). Click the button Select Record to Delete. <br>5. Then use the find tool box to locate the duplicate record you wish to delete. When you find the appropriate record, double click to open. <br>6. The &#8220;to be deleted&#8221; record information will display on the right side of the merge workform. Click the merge button. <br>7. You will be prompted to confirm the action, click continue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"492\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/post-pic-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/post-pic-2.jpg 492w, https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/post-pic-2-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you discover that a patron has multiple patron records, you can merge them into one. This is handy if a patron has moved to a new community. 1. Open the patron record you wish to keep: this should be the record with the correct address and contact information.2. Click &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polaris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}