Webinar on Tracker Implementation Considerations, Wednesday 28 April - Q&A thread - Add your questions and comments below

[brian (Brian O'Donnell)]

Hi Mahmud

Unfortunately there is no way to immediately ASSIGN a value to an TEI Attribute while you are updating a program stage. You would need to again open the registration form with the TEI Attributes.

This is by design: here is an explanation from Markus

Assign value to a tracked entity attribute with an option set

Ok, that makes it a bit more tricky. You probably want to assign and save tracked entity instance attributes while filling in data in an event. The problem with this is that the assignments to tracked entity attributes will be triggered when you are in the registration form, or if you open the edit profile widget - but generally not when you enter data in program stages. There has been a few requests to allow assigning TEI attributes from everywhere in the program, and we can conceivably suppor…

Of course there may be workarounds with custom scripts etc to update the TEI attribute via a PUT request, depending on the use case, but there is no built-in solution. Perhaps you could consider a warning box in the program stage to ask the user to update the TEI attribute. There is also the option to ASSIGN the TEI attribute value to a data element when the program rule is executed.