Hi Devs,
I’ve been working on some quite complex program indicators, and before I commit them to production, I would be very grateful if you could confirm how Yes and No are supposed to be handled in program indicator expressions.
I’ve noticed that within the program indicators, they currently resolve as Yes=1, No=0 and non-response=null. So for example:
· Putting the data element ‘YesNoDE’ itself into an Event Report displays: Yes
· Creating an indicator containing #{YesNoDE} displays: 1
· You can do complex indicators involving the Yes/No data element, eg an index calculation:
1.2345 + #{YesNoDE_A}*2.3456+#{YesNoDE_B}*0.7654.
· You can even put these complex calculations within a d2:condition, eg to test thresholds:
d2:condition(‘1.2345 + #{YesNoDEa}*2.3456+#{YesNoDEb}*0.7654>3.1’,1,0)
This is all excellent, as it enables us to do all sorts of powerful calculations/conditions with Yes/No responses interpreted as 1 or 0. J
So my question: is this expected behaviour, and will it remain consistent in future versions of DHIS2? I’ve noticed, for example, that there are some rendering bugs in Event Capture, where ‘No’ appears as ‘0’ etc – is there any chance that the handling above will be broken when those bugs are fixed, or will I be able to continue to rely on it?
Cheers, Sam.
Hi Lars,
Many thanks, that’s great to know – it makes handling Yes/No data types in indicators very easy! J
Apologies, I’ve checked that “bug” again, and noticed I’d actually changed those data elements from my own custom Yes/No (ie an option set with Integer codes) to the native Yes/No – so it was possibly legacy data that had been saved before the datatype change that was showing up in the UI. (That data’s unfortunately now been over-written, so I can’t be sure.) For now, assume there’s no UI bug – I’ll let you know if I come across anything.
Many thanks again,
Sam.
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From: Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org
Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2016 at 12:20
To: Sam Johnson samuel.johnson@qebo.co.uk
Cc: DHIS2 Developers dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] Confirming ‘official’ handling of Yes and No in program indicators
Hi Sam,
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Sam Johnson samuel.johnson@qebo.co.uk wrote:
Hi Devs,
I’ve been working on some quite complex program indicators, and before I commit them to production, I would be very grateful if you could confirm how Yes and No are supposed to be handled in program indicator expressions.
I’ve noticed that within the program indicators, they currently resolve as Yes=1, No=0 and non-response=null. So for example:
· Putting the data element ‘YesNoDE’ itself into an Event Report displays: Yes
· Creating an indicator containing #{YesNoDE} displays: 1
· You can do complex indicators involving the Yes/No data element, eg an index calculation:
1.2345 + #{YesNoDE_A}*2.3456+#{YesNoDE_B}*0.7654.
· You can even put these complex calculations within a d2:condition, eg to test thresholds:
d2:condition(‘1.2345 + #{YesNoDEa}*2.3456+#{YesNoDEb}*0.7654>3.1’,1,0)
This is all excellent, as it enables us to do all sorts of powerful calculations/conditions with Yes/No responses interpreted as 1 or 0. J
So my question: is this expected behaviour, and will it remain consistent in future versions of DHIS2? I’ve noticed, for example, that there are some rendering bugs in Event Capture, where ‘No’ appears as ‘0’ etc – is there any chance that the handling above will be broken when those bugs are fixed, or will I be able to continue to rely on it?
Yes, it is expected, and will be continued.
To elaborate: In the trackedentity datavalue table we store boolean values as true | false. We convert this to 0 | 1 when we generate the analytics tables to make it more suited for aggregation (as you point out above).
Re the event capture bug - please report with a bit more context and we will try to fix - it is strange that it shows up as 0.
best regards,
Lars
Cheers, Sam.
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