This function combines two or more contacts into a single contact. It's necessary when the same person has been uploaded more than once. I just ran it with keepcontactid=1266 and contactidlist = 9431 [contactid 1266 is Helena Svitavská Svobodová; 9431 is Helena Svitavská-Svobodová]. The function executed successfully, and all publications and datasets previously assigned to 9431 are now assigned to 1266. However, contactid 9431 was supposed to then be deleted at the end of the function, but wasn't: contactid 9431 still exists. Thus, Helena SS is still in the database twice, and it's just a matter of time before a pub or dataset gets assigned to 9431.
This function combines two or more contacts into a single contact. It's necessary when the same person has been uploaded more than once. I just ran it with keepcontactid=1266 and contactidlist = 9431 [contactid 1266 is Helena Svitavská Svobodová; 9431 is Helena Svitavská-Svobodová]. The function executed successfully, and all publications and datasets previously assigned to 9431 are now assigned to 1266. However, contactid 9431 was supposed to then be deleted at the end of the function, but wasn't: contactid 9431 still exists. Thus, Helena SS is still in the database twice, and it's just a matter of time before a pub or dataset gets assigned to 9431.