[Wactclc-alma] Purging users

[Daniel Moore]

Hey Stephanie,

We did a user purge a few weeks ago. The terminology of the process is far
too bleak - you aren't at risk of deleting your entire users table. As I
recall, when setting up the job you can only configure a few things such as
what type of user record to purge and the number of days after purge date.
That secondary value is helpful because the job will only ever consider
users whose purge date is either today or in the past. That number adds a
safe margin to that date itself, e.g. if I expired yesterday but the job
was run with a value of 120 there, my user record will be safe.

-Dan

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 1:06 PM Stephanie Levesen <
Stephanie.Levesen at skagit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
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> I searched through the consortia emails, but didn’t find anything on
> purging users from the system.  The only thing I found in regards to
> purging users was a document titled Alma/Primo Maintenance from an email
> back in 12/10/2018, but there’s no info on the process for purging users on
> it; it just recommended to do it annually.
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> I want to purge users with an expiration date on or before 8/23/2018 (we
> keep two quarters of expired students and purge the rest – we have not
> purged users since we received Alma in 7/2017).  I want to do a test run
> though.
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> I’ve read the documentation on the knowledge base and read the document on
> the developer network (that the knowledge base pointed me to), but I’m
> wondering if anyone has done the Purge Users job under Admin – User
> Management – Purge User Records and how that worked and whether I can do a
> test run on it before I do everyone to make sure I understand the process.
> I’m a little afraid I’m going to end up purging everyone in the system and
> definitely don’t want to do that.
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> If anyone has any helpful tips/tricks or a process to work with on purging
> users that’d be great.  Just an FYI, if this is talked about at the weekly
> meeting tomorrow I won’t be able to attend as I have a class I’m taking at
> that time so will have to watch the recording to get the info.
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> Thanks,
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> Stephanie
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> Stephanie Levesen
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Regards,

Dan Moore
Systems and Collections Librarian
Edmonds Community College Library
dan.moore at edcc.edu / daniel.moore at email.edcc.edu
(425) 640-1526
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