Might be a join issue. Could you post your SQL Query from
Crystal Reports?
From: The Museum System
(TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Aylsworth,
David
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 5:15 PM
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Subject: phantom data in crystal reports
Happy
Friday, everyone…
Have any of
you had an issue of “phantom”
data showing up in a crystal report on your records when the data is not
anywhere in the field for the record itself? I’ve got a crystal report
that pulls up, among other things, copyright restrictions. The OBJRights table
is linked to Objects with a left outer join, and the “Restrictions” field
is included with nothing
fancy.
I’ve got a
batch of records for objects accessioned between 1968-1972 that when I run this report
on them, extensive copyright restrictions that came with a collection in 1991
show up on the report. There is nothing in the restrictions field in TMS
for them. And, when I put in jibberish for a restriction, the jibberish
will not show up, but the bogus restrictions still do.
Since
recently accessioned objects that had new records created individually for them
function properly, I thought maybe this was something affecting any records
that were converted from our previous db, but I’ve pulled up plenty of records
that came over in the conversion that function right. As far as I can
sleuth out, it is restricted to accessioned objects accessioned between
1968-1972. That was prime time for hallucinogenics, but this is too much
of a trip for me on a Friday afternoon.
Any ideas?
I appreciate
any help you can give…
Thanks,
David
Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston
Registrar
for Collections
telephone:
713-639-7824
fax:
713-639-7780