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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

we will implement support for this in 2.4. We don't support it at the moment
but there is nothing wrong with adding a category option to an existing
category and generating additional category option combos (besides being
slightly complex to implement:)


Lars



On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The folk in Zanzibar have an interesting problem with linking with iHRIS.
> iHRIS has data on staffing usually disaggregated by Male/Female but
> occasionally not.  So they need an extra code Male, Female and Unknown.
>
> Now the Zanzibar database has a Sex category with Male and Female defined.
> But *adding* a new categoryoption seems difficult.  After all there are many
> categorycombos using Sex as an axis.  And catoptcombos would need to be
> regenerated etc.  Is there any sensible way to do this?
>
> The alternative is to make a brand new category, say Gender, and fill this
> with the three options though that is far from ideal.  For one thing we
> could not reuse the Male/Female codes so would have to use MALE/FEMALE or
> what have you.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Regards
> Bob
>
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