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Re-entries and microchips

jimdunne
Tue, 26 May 2020 12:34:55 GMT

I have been cloning original files for hedgehogs that have come back into our rescue after being released to the wild. This enables me to add new details to the record, whilst preserving the old record. I have a problem in that I cannot add the microchip details to the new record as the system will not allow it as the chip is already allocated to another animal. Any ideas how to overcome this?

robinrt
Tue, 26 May 2020 14:09:34 GMT

There's nothing unreasonable about doing that, but the normal way would be to return the released to wild movement so you have the complete history with one animal record. Creating a new record means each return will appear as brand new intake when reporting figures. You can turn off the requirement for microchips being unique under Settings->Options->Animal Codes->Allow duplicate microchip numbers