Are Patrons linked with users

  • Resolved dumplinglife

    (@dumplinglife)


    4 years, 2 months ago

    I want to link Patrons with users to eventually let users check out books online. My question is are Patrons already linked with users?

    In database_code, around line 400, there is StorePatronIDWithSelectedUser and StorePatronIDWithCurrentUser. Both of these seem to link patrons with users.

    Some more questions I have:
    1. Are ALL patrons linked with users? If not, how can I make this the case?
    2. What about non-admins or users created with membership plugins like Ultimate Member or Members. Can these users still be linked with patrons?

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  • Plugin Author Robert Heller

    (@robertpheller)

    Patrons are not automagically linked to users. The Librarian can do that and users can “claim” a patron.

    Note: *Patrons* (users) cannot check items out in any case. All a user/patron can do is place holds (request) items, check the due dates for items that they have checked out, and renew items that they have checked out.

    A library “staff person” (the Librarian, Senior Aid, or Volunteer) has to check items out (using the back end [dashboard] pages).

    It is probably not possible to link people created with Ultimate Member or Members, unless they are created as WP users. It *should* be possible to modify the code to implement that (but no *I* am not going to do that). You are free to fork the code…

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