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[Abyot Gizaw <abyota@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm.... that was what I argued for.

Categories (for example age, sex,...) are dimension axis and categoryoptions
(for example {<1, 1-5, 5-10,...}, {male, female}) are units along dimension
axis. My point was that, there shouldn't be multiple units weighing the same
amount/quantity along a single dimension axis. We can't pick different units
when measuring/counting malaria or TB or infectious disease while we are
still talking about age grouping - we need to reuse category options !

Regads,
Abyot.

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jason Pickering <
jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Not entirely sure I am comfortable with this. Can some one point me to
> the discussions that have taken place previously?
>
> The concept of breaking category options into variations seems to be
> very strange and problematic. What if I want to get all data for the
> under one age group, if there are differences in some levels of
> disaggregation and I use the variations as you mention? It seems like
> an unnecessary, and conceptually incorrect, distinction that has been
> made to me.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > 2010/10/28 Yusuph Kassim <yusuphk@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> hello Lars and ola,
> >> hope you are good, listen I was going though the new dhis, it seems like
> >> you cant create two categories with some related category option,
> >
> >
> > Hi Yusuph,
> > This is correct and an important restriction. Options can only belong to
> one
> > category, this is to make sure aggreation of catoptioncombos for a data
> > element is consistent.
> >
> > You can (and should as much as possible) use categories in mutiple
> > catcombos, but not options in mutiple categories.
> >
> > If you search the dev list you'll find lots of emails were this has been
> > discussed, if your interested in more details.
> >
> >>
> >> exmple I might have a program with age dis-aggreation like >1, 1-4, 5 -
> >> 49, < 49 and another one >1, 1-5, < 5, how will you be able to implement
> >> these categories if you wont be allowed to re use the >1 and 1-4? I
> think
> >> this should be looked at. or what do you think?
> >>
> > You can use many variations here, e.g. >1y, >1, >1 yrs.
> >
> > Ola
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