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mirek · February 13, 2013, 01:40:44 am

Hello,
Is there any place where I can find database documentation? I found ERD but not description for fields

xavier · February 13, 2013, 02:27:11 am

Hi,

Something that is slightly higher level than the DB, but probably can help is the API doc:

http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/api/doc

Click on the entity (usually entity X is stored into the table civicrm_X)

And as you probably read already: if you hammer directly at the DB level, it's likely your code will have to be upgraded when you change version. Using the api should make it smoother to upgrade with no or little changes.

X+

Donald Lobo · February 13, 2013, 06:50:16 am

The sql has got a fair bit of documentation for the fields. So combined with the ERD it makes a relatively decent documentation set

also most of the fields have fairly long names, which we hope are quite descriptive by themselves

if you have any specific questions or see areas that are not clear, let us know and we can potentially work on improving them

lobo

mirek · February 13, 2013, 10:36:20 am

Thanks guys. Very helpfull information

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