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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/11/16 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>

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> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> 2009/11/16 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>
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>> > So your proposed solution is to keep the length but remove the
>>> > uniqueness?
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>>> >
>>> Nope that constraint is also relied upon. I guess people who are doing
>>> manual imports can change the length constraint in the database at their
>>> own
>>> risk.
>>>
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>> The issue is the same if we use the import routine: How do we deal with
>> thousands of orgunit imports? What do you currently do with long names?
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> Which import routine are you referring to..?
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I was thinking of the DXF import. We had discussions during the Connectathon
about being able to import metadata (and data) from a predefined Excel
template, https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/import-data, which
would be transformed to DXF2.

Knut