[Koha] MARC export - not exporting everything?

[Elaine Bradtke]

Koha 3.14.03
Several attempts were needed to export the entire catalogue - I really only
wanted a certain item type that does not have item records.

First I tried exporting only these records by choosing the appropriate item
type.  According to MARC edit, I had -11 records.  Yes, a negative number.
 The MARC breaker failed to parse this file. Not surprising when I saw that
it had 0 KB of data.

Next I exported what I thought was the entire catalog - the only thing I
selected was the library, everything else left blank.  However the only
records in the exported file are the ones with item records.  Exactly the
records I don't need!

Finally, I exported the whole file again, this time selecting 'Don't export
items'.  And this, and only this configuration produced a full export of
the biblios.

Is this normal or expected behaviour?  It seems counter-intuitive to me.
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Elaine Bradtke
Data Wrangler
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