Change organizations unit ID Codes and Data element ID Codes

[Shapr0019]

Dear Dhis2 team,

Is it possible to change the organization unit ID Code and Data element ID Code in DHIS2?. I want to change the existing ID codes to align to the required ID codes in another system for integration purposes.

Regards
Shepherd

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

Hi @Shapr0019

Yes it is possible to generate custom ids (see post by @vincentminde) but I’m not sure if it’s possible to directly “change” the ids and by that I mean you might have to import the data again (maybe in a clean test environment first) but auto-generating at the same time.

There are some challenges you might want to tackle with the auto-generated custom ids; for instance,

Automatically generated IDs and Android app

Hi @swoodworth . I don’t see why you couldn´t use that string strictly speaking but, and this is a big but, using CURRENT_DATE(yyyyMMdd) is very likely a bad choice. You can read why in the official doc: Android implementation - DHIS2 Documentation With your current configuration you will need every user to synchronize every day before they work otherwise all their generated ids will be expired because of using the “day” part. Let me know if you need further clarification.