Metadata detailed export is not presented in 2.25?

I can not see that in the interface (although it is presented in the dhis2 documentation)

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Regards

Jose

Jose,

I inquired about the same last week - and Lars responded that it was removed in 2.25 due to it being buggy and a high risk in terms of potentially causing database corruption. I am not happy about removing the functionality since I found it very useful, but I guess it will have to be completely redesigned - so not sure if or when it will be back.

Regards

Calle

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On 1 December 2016 at 15:50, Jose Garcia Muñoz josemp10@gmail.com wrote:

I can not see that in the interface (although it is presented in the dhis2 documentation)

Regards

Jose


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Thanks Calle,

That funcionality is also very important for us. I’m using it all the time.

Lars & team, do you have any plans to restore it in 2.25?

Best

Jose

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On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Calle Hedberg calle.hedberg@gmail.com wrote:

Jose,

I inquired about the same last week - and Lars responded that it was removed in 2.25 due to it being buggy and a high risk in terms of potentially causing database corruption. I am not happy about removing the functionality since I found it very useful, but I guess it will have to be completely redesigned - so not sure if or when it will be back.

Regards

Calle

On 1 December 2016 at 15:50, Jose Garcia Muñoz josemp10@gmail.com wrote:

I can not see that in the interface (although it is presented in the dhis2 documentation)

Regards

Jose


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Hi there,

sorry, unfortunately we will not put it back into 2.25. We removed it because the feature was low-quality and lead to many problems down the road since people exported and imported meta-data of invalid state (think favorites without any data elements, categories without any options etc).

We do understand that this was useful from the feedback though so we will do our best to come up with a similar but better version.

As mentioned before, please let us know about the most popular use-cases and we can extend the “Metadata dependency export” feature.

regards,

LArs

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On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Jose Garcia Muñoz josemp10@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks Calle,

That funcionality is also very important for us. I’m using it all the time.

Lars & team, do you have any plans to restore it in 2.25?

Best

Jose


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On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Calle Hedberg calle.hedberg@gmail.com wrote:

Jose,

I inquired about the same last week - and Lars responded that it was removed in 2.25 due to it being buggy and a high risk in terms of potentially causing database corruption. I am not happy about removing the functionality since I found it very useful, but I guess it will have to be completely redesigned - so not sure if or when it will be back.

Regards

Calle

On 1 December 2016 at 15:50, Jose Garcia Muñoz josemp10@gmail.com wrote:

I can not see that in the interface (although it is presented in the dhis2 documentation)

Regards

Jose


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Lars Helge Øverland

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University of Oslo

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Hi,

I hardly ever used that “with dependencies” option because I was never able to determine what dependencies would be included or not, and when using it I would often get import summaries that did not make sense.

The most typical scenario for my use of the detailed export feature was to export specific but “clean” sub-sets of data elements, indicators, and so forth. So when exporting more complicated objects, I would usually carefully sequence a string of exports that ensured that objects would be imported in the same sequence you would typically define them from scratch (e.g. first export/import options, then option sets, then data elements using those option sets, etc etc).

My preferred option for this functionality is that it would be a two-step, more transparent process:

  1. User select a number of primary meta-data objects (e.g. a set of indicators).

  2. The system will scan through the objects, determine what they directly depend on (like data elements), and display those for the user to accept or reject for inclusion.

If the user reject to include e.g. underlying data elements in the export file, it is up to the user to either export them separately OR else to ensure that they are in the destination database already. It might also make sense to limit the “dependency depth” to just one level - so when exporting indicators you would be notified of data elements required, but NOT be notified of option sets required for those data elements and in turn options required for those option sets.

Other related objects - like data element allocations to orgunits, or data element group memberships, should rather be separate detailed exports than “dependency inclusions”.

We can discuss this later in the week, Lars.

Regards from Oslo

Calle

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On 12 December 2016 at 20:54, Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi there,

sorry, unfortunately we will not put it back into 2.25. We removed it because the feature was low-quality and lead to many problems down the road since people exported and imported meta-data of invalid state (think favorites without any data elements, categories without any options etc).

We do understand that this was useful from the feedback though so we will do our best to come up with a similar but better version.

As mentioned before, please let us know about the most popular use-cases and we can extend the “Metadata dependency export” feature.

regards,

LArs

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Jose Garcia Muñoz josemp10@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks Calle,

That funcionality is also very important for us. I’m using it all the time.

Lars & team, do you have any plans to restore it in 2.25?

Best

Jose


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On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Calle Hedberg calle.hedberg@gmail.com wrote:

Jose,

I inquired about the same last week - and Lars responded that it was removed in 2.25 due to it being buggy and a high risk in terms of potentially causing database corruption. I am not happy about removing the functionality since I found it very useful, but I guess it will have to be completely redesigned - so not sure if or when it will be back.

Regards

Calle

On 1 December 2016 at 15:50, Jose Garcia Muñoz josemp10@gmail.com wrote:

I can not see that in the interface (although it is presented in the dhis2 documentation)

Regards

Jose


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Calle Hedberg

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Hi,

In addition to what Calle explained I found the most problematic dependencies included are users and their user roles. We typically export orgunits, data elements and indicators between instances that contain similar objects but are not always exact replicas of each other and user permissions differ. We took some time to discover why a specific superusers account was always being changed then discovered that he did not have a superuser account in the source system. It would be preferable for metadata if the user information is dropped from the export and the importers user information.attached since that is the person who imports it i to.the new instance or as Calle suggests you get an option what to include/exclude.

Regards

Elmarie Claasen

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On 12 Dec 2016 23:49, “Calle Hedberg” calle.hedberg@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I hardly ever used that “with dependencies” option because I was never able to determine what dependencies would be included or not, and when using it I would often get import summaries that did not make sense.

The most typical scenario for my use of the detailed export feature was to export specific but “clean” sub-sets of data elements, indicators, and so forth. So when exporting more complicated objects, I would usually carefully sequence a string of exports that ensured that objects would be imported in the same sequence you would typically define them from scratch (e.g. first export/import options, then option sets, then data elements using those option sets, etc etc).

My preferred option for this functionality is that it would be a two-step, more transparent process:

  1. User select a number of primary meta-data objects (e.g. a set of indicators).
  1. The system will scan through the objects, determine what they directly depend on (like data elements), and display those for the user to accept or reject for inclusion.

If the user reject to include e.g. underlying data elements in the export file, it is up to the user to either export them separately OR else to ensure that they are in the destination database already. It might also make sense to limit the “dependency depth” to just one level - so when exporting indicators you would be notified of data elements required, but NOT be notified of option sets required for those data elements and in turn options required for those option sets.

Other related objects - like data element allocations to orgunits, or data element group memberships, should rather be separate detailed exports than “dependency inclusions”.

We can discuss this later in the week, Lars.

Regards from Oslo

Calle


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On 12 December 2016 at 20:54, Lars Helge Øverland lars@dhis2.org wrote:

Hi there,

sorry, unfortunately we will not put it back into 2.25. We removed it because the feature was low-quality and lead to many problems down the road since people exported and imported meta-data of invalid state (think favorites without any data elements, categories without any options etc).

We do understand that this was useful from the feedback though so we will do our best to come up with a similar but better version.

As mentioned before, please let us know about the most popular use-cases and we can extend the “Metadata dependency export” feature.

regards,

LArs


Calle Hedberg

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On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Jose Garcia Muñoz josemp10@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks Calle,

That funcionality is also very important for us. I’m using it all the time.

Lars & team, do you have any plans to restore it in 2.25?

Best

Jose


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On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Calle Hedberg calle.hedberg@gmail.com wrote:

Jose,

I inquired about the same last week - and Lars responded that it was removed in 2.25 due to it being buggy and a high risk in terms of potentially causing database corruption. I am not happy about removing the functionality since I found it very useful, but I guess it will have to be completely redesigned - so not sure if or when it will be back.

Regards

Calle

On 1 December 2016 at 15:50, Jose Garcia Muñoz josemp10@gmail.com wrote:

I can not see that in the interface (although it is presented in the dhis2 documentation)

Regards

Jose


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