USER ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 3. MAINTAINING THE USER DATABASE
Deleting Inactive Users
You can delete inactive (obsolete) user records from your library’s database based on a specified cutoff date. User records for all users who have not logged into the system from the specified date to the current date are deleted from your library’s database.
NOTE: The User Administrator and “generic” patron user records will not be deleted from the database under any circumstances.
To delete inactive users:
- From the User Admin menu, select Delete Obsolete Records.
- The Delete Obsolete Records screen displays.
Delete Obsolete Records Screen
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Enter the desired cutoff date in the Enter Cut-Off Date text box.
NOTE: Enter the cutoff date using the format mm/dd/yyyy. Be sure to include the slashes “/” when entering the cutoff date.
- For example, to delete user records for all users that have not logged into the system since January 1, 2002, enter 01/01/2012 in the Enter Cut-Off Date text box.
- Click the Continue button. (Click the Cancel button to cancel the deletion
and close the Delete Obsolete Records window.)
- The Delete Obsolete Records screen refreshes to display a confirmation message indicating the estimated number of user records that will be deleted from your library’s database.
Confirmation Message
- Click the Continue button to delete the inactive records. (Click Go Back
if you wish to enter a different cutoff date.)
- The Delete Obsolete Records screen refreshes to display a status message indicating the actual number of user records deleted from your library’s database.
Status Message
- Click the Close button to close the status message.