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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Jørn Braa <jornbraa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> we need "active" column because there are different reasons for
> orgunits to stop reporting temporarily or close (and we need the
> histroic data) and we need to import frm dhis1.4
> jorn
>

Jason wrote:
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My only problem with this approach is that DHIS 1.4 uses this "active"
column to record whether orgunits are currently submitting data or
not. I have noticed here that in some cases, users create " bogus"
orgunits to which they attach no data. In other cases, facilities may
close, the units are marked as "inactive", but the historical data is
still important.

So, we could warn people that this is a limitation with DHIS 2.0 and
that they should resolve these issues before migration/importation.
That is unless we can add the "active" column to 2.0.
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OK. I don't understand why 1.4 has this property, it one wants to indicate
whether an OrgUnit is reporting or not I would say that property should be
on the OrgUnit itself. DHIS 2 has an OrganisationUnit.active property. But
we don't really use this property for anyting yet so i am not sure if it
gives us anyting to import it....