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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/10/21 Ola Hodne Titlestad <olatitle@xxxxxxxxx>

> In a bit longer perspective it would be great if we could include a
> mainstream excel import as part of the import service. We've discussed this
> before. There is a great need for this and we already have a blueprint if I
> remember correctly. The idea was to have predefined (generated by DHIS)
> excel sheets with metadata that could easily be imported into DHIS. Preview
> and other import  functionality is needed here in the same way as with DXF
> import. Hopefully efforts and local modules from India and Vietnam can merge
> into this over time.
>
> Ola
>


Yes we have a student group working on that right now.

If anyone's interested this year's groups are:

F09-01 Catchment Population generation
F09-02 Spring-based internationalization solution
F09-03 Import of organisation units and hierarchy from Shapefiles
F09-04 Objective data set completeness
F09-05 Upgrade security solution to Spring Security
F09-06 Import of metadata from Excel


Lars