dhis2-devs-core team mailing list archive

[Jim Grace <jimgrace@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Yes definitely, we need a "label" setting letting people choose what to
> display in the UI.
>
>
>> I hope we we can allow the user to configure named relationships between
>> tracker entities of the same and/or different type, like optional family
>> relationships between Persons, or a mandatory relationship between Sample
>> and Person.
>>
>
> I think we actually have that already, look under Relationship Type in
> Persons and Programs module.
>

Excellent. Then we might want to extend this to include relationships
between different types of entities, and whether or not they are required,
many-to-many, etc. (e.g. a person can have zero or more siblings but a
sample must relate to exactly one patient.)


> Can anyone think of a good name for the Java class representing this
> thing? We cannot call it Patient anymore for sure.
>

Here are my top 3, each with pros and cons (not ranked):

Entity - Very generic, somewhat descriptive, rather vague.
TrackerEntity - Nice and specific, although 5 syllables is a lot.
Tracked - A thing that is tracked. 1 syllable! perhaps too cryptic?

Are we thinking of making "Program" into a user-configurable object as
well? (either the same type of object that a "Person" could be, or a
different type of object.) Then we can allow the user to define sensible
relationships between Person and Program and/or between lab Sample and
SampleFlow, or whatever else they need.

 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>
 wrote:

Yes. There is actually a big CDC Global Health Security project that uses
> Tracker exactly for this purpose. It is being piloted in Uganda.
>

Very cool!

Cheers,
Jim