Merging Owners

The merge button on the owner screen toolbar allows you to choose another owner record to merge into this one. This is useful, because on occasion, users will key the same owner in twice with a slightly different name and/or address and probably adopt an animal to them, etc.

Open the owner record that you want to merge into. Hit the merge button and choose the duplicate owner record.

ASM will reparent all of the movements, links, media, etc from the duplicate owner onto the open one. When it's finished doing that, the duplicate owner record will be removed. Note that owner details are never copied during a merge, the merge just moves all the satellite data from the selected owner to the open owner before deleting the selected one.