Patron Codes 1 and 2 for Sierra Patron records are changing today to be utilized for troubleshooting. Patron code 1 will indicate how a record was updated. Patron Code 2 will indicate how a record was added. All of the records added before today will have an “l” Lagacy for patron code 2.
Currently a patron record is add/updated from multiple sources that include Registrar (Sims-R), Human Resources, Extended Studies (Done Manually), and soon foundation. If there is a problem with a patron record (Expiration date or bad data), we should be able to figure out where we are getting the data and fix the issue from the source.
Pcode 1 was normally used to stop records from being updated automatically by placing a “d” DOP (Don’t Overlay Patron). That function will still work and will indicate that a record was updated manually. If Pcode 1 or 2 has an Extended Studies label, it was a record that was add/updated manually through an uploading process. The data from extended studies is cleaned up by me in an excel file and uploaded using parameters that I set. These records are more likely to have errors because of the original file data is bad or I made a mistake when preparing the data for uploading. Let me know if there are serious errors with these records because I should be able to fix them.
**Update**
The scripts did not work properly this morning, so these changes will take effect next week.