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Re: Automating DHIS2

 

Hi Jason,

Scheduling of data mart exports is already a blueprint targetted for 2.0.6:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/datamart-jobs

The idea is to have this built-in and configurable from the DHIS UI.

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On 7 November 2010 08:37, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi . I was wondering if anyone has done any scripting to automate
> certain tasks (namely the datamart) with DHIS2. I came across this
> utility for Firefox which was extremely easy to use and did pretty
> much what I wanted.
>
> http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/?ref=fxtab
>
> Usually, I would do this sort of thing through a shell script, but I
> have not really figured out how to login to DHIS2 through a command
> line tool like wget. Basic HTTP authentication does not seem to be
> supported, but I thought I had seen a commit about this some time ago.
>
> Basically, I think it would be very useful to be able to
> programatically call URLs, for instance to regenerate the datamart and
> report tables on a period and scheduled basis. This iMacro extension
> is free, but only the paid version can be used through the command
> line or Windows Task Scheduler. Any one else have some ideas how this
> could be done?
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
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> Jason P. Pickering
> email: jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
> tel:+260968395190
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