One of our library systems is wanting to do an Amnesty project, and clear all
bills over 5 yrs old. Anyone have a script we can start with? Or any gotchas
We should know about?
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Lynn Floyd
MIS Supervisor
Indiana State Library
https://www.in.gov/library/
315 W Ohio
Hi Lynn,
I've done a few of these projects on a database level for libraries. A
quick question, do they want to clear all bills over five years old or all
bills associated with transactions that are more than five years old? The
difference can lead to some odd edge-case scenarios. My experience
Lynn,
There is a script to forgive bills by patron is available in the
examples from my 2019 Evergreen pre-conference presenation:
https://github.com/Dyrcona/evergreen2019-preconference/blob/master/examples/forgive_bills.pl
This could be used a starting point. The script eliminates bills by
appl
