Re: [Gnumed-bugs] <bug>: trying to merge doubled patients

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:59:50PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > They quick way
> > out for you is to activate either of patient 1109 or 1310
> > and edit (remove) the cell phone number on either of them
> > (hint: preferably prepend "old: " to the number string on
> > the to-be-merged patient 1310).
> > 
> > I did install a partial solution to this into the 1.3.next
> > code at any rate.
> 
> Which does quite what the suggestion above sayeth:

...

> namely appending a translation of " (merged <TODAY NOW>" to
> any duplicate comm channel URL which will make the window
> for remaining duplicate comm channels rather small.

Why not simply deleting "duplicate" comm channels ?

Because that would loose .comment and .is_confidential
information on the deleted entry while the disambiguated
versions can later manually be consolidated as appropriate.

Karsten
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