[Koha] Mass Updating Patrons

David Schuster dschust1 at tx.rr.com
Fri Sep 18 01:38:03 NZST 2009


I want to load "new" users - This is how I update our students on a regular
basis.  I have some development in the works for this to be run as a cron
job where it would "regularly" go out and pull in a file and process it so I
don't have to do this manually.

David Schuster
Plano ISD

Ed Roche wrote:
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> Hi All
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> I just had to do a mass update of all our patrons to add an extended
> attribute and a value for that attribute. To do this I used an export
> from our system that tracks our student records and used the patron
> import feature. It work fine except I don't think the section "Field to
> use for record matching" is working properly. The reason I say this is
> because there were about 14 new student that were part of the import
> file that were not currently in Koha it added there info when all I
> wanted to do was update what was already there. I guess it kind of makes
> sense but maybe we could have an option that we can select only the
> patrons that are currently in the database to update.
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> Ed
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> Edward J. Roche
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> Network Administrator
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> Solanco School District
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