hope you are good, listen I was going though the new dhis, it seems like you cant create two categories with some related category option,
exmple I might have a program with age dis-aggreation like >1, 1-4, 5 - 49, < 49 and another one >1, 1-5, < 5, how will you be able to implement these categories if you wont be allowed to re use the >1 and 1-4? I think this should be looked at. or what do you think?
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Yusuph Kassim Kulindwa,
University of Dar Es Salaam,
Department of Computer Science,
System Developer/ Research Assistant.
hope you are good, listen I was going though the new dhis, it seems like you cant create two categories with some related category option,
Hi Yusuph,
This is correct and an important restriction. Options can only belong to one category, this is to make sure aggreation of catoptioncombos for a data element is consistent.
You can (and should as much as possible) use categories in mutiple catcombos, but not options in mutiple categories.
If you search the dev list you’ll find lots of emails were this has been discussed, if your interested in more details.
exmple I might have a program with age dis-aggreation like >1, 1-4, 5 - 49, < 49 and another one >1, 1-5, < 5, how will you be able to implement these categories if you wont be allowed to re use the >1 and 1-4? I think this should be looked at. or what do you think?
You can use many variations here, e.g. >1y, >1, >1 yrs.
hope you are good, listen I was going though the new dhis, it seems like you cant create two categories with some related category option,
Hi Yusuph,
This is correct and an important restriction. Options can only belong to one category, this is to make sure aggreation of catoptioncombos for a data element is consistent.
You can (and should as much as possible) use categories in mutiple catcombos, but not options in mutiple categories.
If you search the dev list you’ll find lots of emails were this has been discussed, if your interested in more details.
exmple I might have a program with age dis-aggreation like >1, 1-4, 5 - 49, < 49 and another one >1, 1-5, < 5, how will you be able to implement these categories if you wont be allowed to re use the >1 and 1-4? I think this should be looked at. or what do you think?
You can use many variations here, e.g. >1y, >1, >1 yrs.
Ola
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Yusuph Kassim Kulindwa,
University of Dar Es Salaam,
Department of Computer Science,
System Developer/ Research Assistant.
Cell: +255 713 535648
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Yusuph Kassim Kulindwa,
University of Dar Es Salaam,
Department of Computer Science,
System Developer/ Research Assistant.
Not entirely sure I am comfortable with this. Can some one point me to
the discussions that have taken place previously?
The concept of breaking category options into variations seems to be
very strange and problematic. What if I want to get all data for the
under one age group, if there are differences in some levels of
disaggregation and I use the variations as you mention? It seems like
an unnecessary, and conceptually incorrect, distinction that has been
made to me.
Regards,
Jason
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
2010/10/28 Yusuph Kassim <yusuphk@gmail.com>
hello Lars and ola,
hope you are good, listen I was going though the new dhis, it seems like
you cant create two categories with some related category option,
Hi Yusuph,
This is correct and an important restriction. Options can only belong to one
category, this is to make sure aggreation of catoptioncombos for a data
element is consistent.
You can (and should as much as possible) use categories in mutiple
catcombos, but not options in mutiple categories.
If you search the dev list you'll find lots of emails were this has been
discussed, if your interested in more details.
exmple I might have a program with age dis-aggreation like >1, 1-4, 5 -
49, < 49 and another one >1, 1-5, < 5, how will you be able to implement
these categories if you wont be allowed to re use the >1 and 1-4? I think
this should be looked at. or what do you think?
You can use many variations here, e.g. >1y, >1, >1 yrs.
Ola
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Yusuph Kassim Kulindwa,
University of Dar Es Salaam,
Department of Computer Science,
System Developer/ Research Assistant.
Categories (for example age, sex,…) are dimension axis and categoryoptions (for example {<1, 1-5, 5-10,…}, {male, female}) are units along dimension axis. My point was that, there shouldn’t be multiple units weighing the same amount/quantity along a single dimension axis. We can’t pick different units when measuring/counting malaria or TB or infectious disease while we are still talking about age grouping - we need to reuse category options !