Hello All,

I have a rather basic question, but something that has been confusing me for a 
while as a newcomer to using Koha.

When I am trying to do some routine data cleaning I regularly find that the 
OPAC results often differ from the SQL reports results on what I assume to be 
the same field. One regular offender here is items.location. The items location 
in the OPAC is different and often more detailed or complete than the value 
returned in a  report, which may often be blank despite there being a value in 
the OPAC.

So my question is, what are the two different ways that values are being pulled 
for the OPAC results (staff side, mainly) and the SQL Report side, 
respectively. Or is this an indication that somehow data has not been entered 
correctly?

Additionally, this is PTFS LibLime Academic Koha, I am assuming that it does 
not differ greatly from vanilla Koha in this respect.

As an afterthought, is there a good source of documentation out there that 
gives a better idea of the internal workings of Koha, the shape of its data 
architecture and how it renders data across its many views? So far I can only 
really find end-user UI instructions.

Many thanks,
Drew

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Andrew Gordon, MSI
Systems Librarian
Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY, 10029
212.822.7324
http://nyamcenterforhistory.org/

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