Remove User, Remove Bill, Longoverdue Reports

I ran the remove user report for the expired users whose cards expired 18 months ago. I chose only users with a status of OK, so the report did not touch any users with bills or fines. When completed we dumped 41,207 users. (I’ll have a spreadsheet for you at the next meeting.) Tomorrow evening the Users to Remove report will run again for each of your libraries and next month I will run the Remove Users report. This time I expect a smaller number of course. So when you get the new report Saturday or Tuesday look it over as you did this month.

I ran the report to remove all bills with the reason of Legacy. The report ran just as expected and we shed 50,173 bills that we weren’t likely to collect. I also removed the Bill reason from Unicorn. There was no reason to be using it as it was only intended to allow us to bring across outstanding fines that did not have their items any more.

The Longoverdue report however did not work as intended. I tested it first on our test server so it did not have any affects on our stuff. The report discharged and moved the items accordingly and even generated a bill, but it does not maintain a link. This means you cannot easily look up by patron and see what the item was that they never returned. I am testing a different report that I hope will maintain this link as it would be just like the Legacy bills. Why would anyone pay for something that we couldn’t tell them what it was? I will let you know when I’m done testing and run the report for real.