thanks for help on patron record loading

[Lesha Fossey <L.Fossey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all who offered help on my recent patron record loading query.

A couple of people pointed out that the manual's section on patron record 
loading (#14193 to #14210) was not the whole story with regards to data being 
overlaid, etc. The section on Database Maintenance Options - edit overlay 
protection list (#20050 to #20056) is also essential reading. Typically, they 
are not cross-referenced :-(

Anyway, regardless of the fact that #14203 says that Innovative must make any 
alterations/additions to the list of fields not overlaid (and doesn't even 
mention the possibility of different types of overlay protection) #20051 
demonstrates exactly HOW to alter or add entries and explains the different 
types of protection. So I've made some adjustments, and it looks OK. (apart 
from the fact that I discovered that for the past year we've been losing note 
information, as that field wasn't protected at all and was therefore 
being overlaid with a blank!) Now, if we have an address then the info from 
Registry won't overwrite it, and if we don't have an address, then the Registry 
one will load. 

Now it just remains for me to try to work out why overlay protection code d 
(delete) actually KEEPS the information you currently have, and overlay 
protection code k (keep) actually DELETES the current information by overwriting 
it! But that's Innopac logic for you.....

Lesha
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