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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Bob Jolliffe
<bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 22 January 2011 18:29, Jo Størset <706216@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Turns out this is because, even though you have to choose a catcombo to
> > create a section, the catcombo is never stored and we rely on the
> > contained dataelemts to supply this information.. That doesn't work out
> > when you don't have any...
> >
> > More serious, when no data element is in a section, you are allowed to
> > add dataelements with *different* catcombos to a section...
> >
> > In addition to this, getting the info box also leads to an error trying
> > to iterate over nonexisting dataelements to get the catcombo, for empty
> > sections.
> >
> > All in all I don't think it is a good idea to not explicitly store the
> > catcombo for sections.
>
> Totally agree.  Hadn't realized we are not doing that.  (Looking
> further to the future I would say that the catcombo should *only* be
> an attribute of the section and *not* of the dataelement but that's
> another discussion we must still have post-release).
>
> >But that might be a bigger change than we want
> > just now?
>
> I don't know.  I've not looked at that section of code too much to
> know what is involved.  Have you?  Addition of categorycombo to
> Section api, model, service methods etc.  And (hopefully) minor mods
> to web modules to respect the categorycombo.  My guess is that if Lars
> is going to be able to release tonight, then this might be too much.
> But if there are other things holding it up, it would be worth fixing.
>
>
It is too much :)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706216

Title:
  Section categorycombo variable not resolved

Status in DHIS 2 - District Health Information Software:
  New

Bug description:
  running 2715, on reasonably clean demo database.

  Category combinations in section edit screen is shown as
  "$categoryCombo.name"

  The same is true of dhis.uio.no/demo