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[Hieu Dang Duy <hieu.hispvietnam@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

We have to be careful in misunderstanding of the meaning of alternative
name. The I18n translation functionality which is only the support one for
Multilingual. But in this case alternative name which could understand that
a another name of a specified object. One data element, ie. it could be
having many other alternative name. I'm not familiar with the health words.

But for example in Chemical field, if you say CH3-OH so everyone would know
that is Methanol or Metilic alcohol.

Just a small comment.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Not 100% sure, but I think Alternative Name is used to store the English
> translations of the Swahili data elements in the Tanzanian databases, as an
> ad-hoc i18n approach. This can of course be replaced by a using the i18n
> functionality (given that it works properly, and that it is also possible to
> show lists/reports etc. showing both languages).
>
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> On 27 April 2011 17:04, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 27 April 2011 15:24, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > +1 from me as well, assuming that we can migrate the existing
>> > alternative names to whatever object replaces it.
>>
>> To what extent to we have existing alternative names?
>>
>> >Also, if you can
>> > look into how  we can match on these names during import, similar to
>> > DHIS 1.4, this would be very useful in hetereogeneous, data
>> > warehousing situations where multiple data bases feed DHIS2, but which
>> > may have slightly different names of the same data element.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 4/27/11, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> 2011/4/27 Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> >>> I would actually suggest that multiple alternative names to be added
>> for a
>> >>> dataelement or indicator.
>> >>> It would be similar to the representing synonyms for a data element or
>> >>> indicator.
>> >>
>> >> Saptarshi I think I agree with you in principle.  And probably the
>> >> best way to work towards this is to start by removing the hard coded
>> >> alternative name property. So +1 from me to the proposal.
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> ---
>> >>> Regards,
>> >>> Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA
>> >>>
>> >>> My Tech Blog:  http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com
>> >>> You Live by CHOICE, Not by CHANCE
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> 2011/4/27 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi all, we are currently investigating the core domain model in order
>> to
>> >>>> see how we can make the entities have a consistent set of properties.
>> >>>> In that regard we are proposing to remove the alternative name
>> property
>> >>>> of
>> >>>> data element and indicator entities. It seems this property is a
>> ad-hoc
>> >>>> legacy internationalization effort and not really useful. Would it be
>> >>>> okay
>> >>>> to remove it?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> regards, Lars
>> >>>>
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